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teamwork
CIDE DICTIONARY
teamwork, n.
- Work done by a team, as distinguished from that done by personal labor. [1913 Webster]
- Work done by a number of associates, usually each doing a clearly defined portion, but all subordinating personal prominence to the efficiency of the whole; as, the teamwork of a football eleven or a gun crew. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]"Is the teamwork system employed, or does one workman make the whole cigar?" [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
teamwork, n. the combined action of a team, group, etc., esp. when effective and efficient.
THESAURUS
teamwork
bipartisanship, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship, collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism, collusion, commensalism, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communism, communitarianism, community, complicity, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, cooperation, cooperativeness, duet, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, esprit, esprit de corps, fellow feeling, fellowship, harmony, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, mass action, morale, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, octet, pooling, pooling of resources, pulling together, quartet, quintet, reciprocity, septet, sextet, solidarity, symbiosis, synergism, synergy, team spirit, trio, triumvirate, troika, united actionFor further exploring for "teamwork" in Webster Dictionary Online