"working bee" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: working bees [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} working bee (plural working bees)
  1. (New Zealand, Australia) A group of volunteers doing charitable work. Tags: Australia, New-Zealand Translations (a voluntary group doing a job for charity): ohu (english: an idiom) (Maori)
    Sense id: en-working_bee-en-noun-03sIH~63 Categories (other): Australian English, English entries with incorrect language header, New Zealand English

Inflected forms

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