"team up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-team up.ogg [Australia] Forms: teams up [present, singular, third-person], teaming up [participle, present], teamed up [participle, past], teamed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} team up (third-person singular simple present teams up, present participle teaming up, simple past and past participle teamed up)
  1. (idiomatic) To join into a team, or into teams. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-team_up-en-verb-GFGFqB2L Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for team up meaning in English (1.9kB)

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