"support group" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: support groups [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} support group (plural support groups)
  1. A group of people who informally support each other over a problem which all members share. Wikipedia link: support group Categories (topical): Collectives Translations (group of people who support each other): 互助組 (Chinese Mandarin), 互助组 (hùzhùzǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), steungroep [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), praatgroep [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), tukiryhmä (Finnish), oma-apuryhmä (Finnish), vertaisryhmä (Finnish), groupe de parole [masculine] (French), Selbsthilfegruppe [feminine] (German), grupa wsparcia [feminine] (Polish), grup de sprijin [neuter] (Romanian), grup de suport [neuter] (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-support_group-en-noun-MOhOzA9E Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Inflected forms

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