"tiger team" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-tiger team.ogg [Australia] Forms: tiger teams [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} tiger team (plural tiger teams)
  1. A specialized group tasked with testing the effectiveness of an organization's ability to protect assets by attempting to circumvent, defeat or otherwise thwart that organization's internal and external security.
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  2. An engineering or other group assembled to tackle especially difficult or critical problems, often outside the normal chain of command.
    Sense id: en-tiger_team-en-noun-kyaFAhp4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 67

Inflected forms

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