1. Sports & Games. A group on the same side, as in a game.
2. A group organized to work together: a team of engineers.
3. 1. Two or more draft animals used to pull a vehicle or farm implement.
   2. A vehicle along with the animal or animals harnessed to it.
4. A group of animals exhibited or performing together, as horses at an equestrian show.
5. A brood or flock.
6. Obsolete. Offspring; lineage.

1. To harness or join together so as to form a team.
2. To transport or haul with a draft team.

1. To form a team or an association. Often used with up.
2. To drive a team or truck.

[Middle English, team of draft animals, from Old English tēam.]

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