TASK FORCE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of task force in English

(Definition of task force from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of task force from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of task force

task force
A small inter-service task force may have five participants.
Each task force holds one or more open forums at a major national anesthesia meeting to solicit input on its draft guideline from meeting attendees.
Once the formalized topics, goals, and objectives are identified and agreed upon by the task force, an evidence model is formulated.
You can't have a wide range of military options with the task force in wild and stormy weather.
The manual workers union conducted its own study on privatisation and made submissions to the task force.
The task force begins the process by formalizing the intended topics, goals, and objectives for the proposed guideline.
Directly following an open forum, the task force meets, commentary is discussed, and clarifications in the draft document may be made.
The task force will have at its disposal several contexts with which to manage the mission.
Once on the task force, they created public controversy over many of the proposed laws' provisions.
The task force did crack one of the silences in the regional discourse by mentioning other northern residents, but their interests remained undefined and unrepresented.
Once the model is in place, the task force can initiate a multistep process.
A departmental 'task force' was to consider various vertical separation options.
You can 't have a wide range of military options with the task force in wild and stormy weather ' (same).
Work on the project was slow but, by the early 1960s, the task force completed its work on the draft legislation.
Because the intervention employed an external ' task force ' to implement the assessment, the authors raised concerns that the intervention might become less effective once applied in practice.
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Translations of task force

in Chinese (Traditional)
特別工作組, 特遣部隊…
in Chinese (Simplified)
特别工作组, 特遣部队…
in Spanish
equipo operativo, destacamento especial…
in Portuguese
grupo de trabalho, força-tarefa, destacamento especial…
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görev gücü/kuvveti, özel görev birliği…
détachement spécial…
speciale eenheid…
speciální jednotka…
specialstyrke…
gugus tugas…
หน่วยปฏิบัติการเฉพาะกิจ…
lực lượng đặc nhiệm…
oddział specjalny, grupa robocza…
specialstyrka…
pasukan petugas…
der Kampfverband…
kommandostyrke…
цільова група…
оперативная группа…
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