Group Students Formed People ɡruːp Number Action Minority

• a group of girls/trees/houses
• a group of us is/are going to the theatre this evening.
• students stood around in groups waiting for their results.
• the residents formed a community action group.

group

1. a number of people or things that are together in the same place or that are connected in some way
• see also food group
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• a group of girls/trees/houses
• A group of us is/are going to the theatre this evening.
• Students stood around in groups waiting for their results.
• The residents formed a community action group.
• English is a member of the Germanic group of languages.
• The proportion of single-parent families varies between different income groups.
• a minority group
• ethnic groups
• a group activity (= done by a number of people working together)
• She asked her students to get into groups of four.
• to work in groups
2. a number of companies that are owned by the same person or organization
• a newspaper group
• the Burton group
• the group sales director
3. a number of musicians who perform together, especially to play pop music
• She sings in a rock group.

Extra Examples

• Disabled drivers are an ever-growing minority group.
• He left the group last year to pursue a solo career.
• He started smoking because of peer-group pressure.
• Local parents have formed an action group to campaign for better road safety.
• She has a very wide group of friends.
• The animals live in family groups of 10–20 individuals.
• The gorillas go foraging for food as a group.
• The group formed back in 1992.
• The group has split up and re-formed several times with different musicians.
• The president met with a select group of senior ministers.
• The strangers who came together for the course soon became a cohesive group.
• There are fifteen of us in the group.
• We divided the class into small groups.
• What blood group are you?
• Within a group, each individual had a definite status.
• a discussion group that meets once a month
• a group of young mothers
• young people in this age group
• A large group of people had collected outside the building.
• Classes will involve both individual and group activities.
• Group therapy is not as popular as it used to be.
• I divided the class into groups of four.
• It costs $20 to join the group.
• Members of some ethnic groups say that the law is discriminatory.
• Minority groups are entitled to equal protection under the law.
• On the hillside was a little group of houses.
• Only group members are allowed to vote.
• Our group sales director attended the conference in Munich this year.
• People in the younger age groups tended to vote less.
• She goes to a drama group every Saturday.
• She worked with groups of college students who had literacy problems.
• Students were sitting around in groups on the grass.
• The Burton group announced its quarterly figures yesterday.
• The college has a small but active women’s group.
• They formed a small group that was later to grow into a major protest movement.
• This acquisition will make them the largest newspaper group in the world.
• We have set up a self-help group for victims of crime.
• What’s your blood group?

Word Origin

• late 17th cent.: from French groupe, from Italian gruppo, of Germanic origin; related to crop.