work as a team

Meaning

This phrase means to collaborate or cooperate with others to achieve a common goal. It is commonly used in professional and academic settings to emphasize collaboration over individual effort. The tone is encouraging, collaborative, and highly professional.

Examples

• If we want to finish this project by Friday, we need to work as a team.

  If we want to finish this project by Friday, we need to work as a team.

• Our department managed to increase sales because everyone learned to work as a team.

  Our department managed to increase sales because everyone learned to work as a team.

• It's important for new hires to know how to work as a team from day one.

  It's important for new hires to know how to work as a team from day one.

• Instead of competing against each other, let's try to work as a team.

  Instead of competing against each other, let's try to work as a team.

• The manager praised the staff for their ability to work as a team during the crisis.

  The manager praised the staff for their ability to work as a team during the crisis.

Common Mistakes

• ✗ We need to work as team.

  ✓ We need to work as a team.

  'Team' is a singular countable noun here, so the indefinite article 'a' is required.

• ✗ They work like a team.

  ✓ They work as a team.

  'Work like' suggests they resemble a team but are not actually one. 'Work as a team' means they are actively collaborating as a unit.

Related Expressions

Practice

• The project will only succeed if we learn to ___.

  💡 Collaborate together.

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  work as a team

• To solve this problem, we must ___ instead of working individually.

  💡 Cooperate as a group.

  Show answer

  work as a team