age group

noun

1. people of approximately the same age and often of the same gender or sex, nationality, educational or social background, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of age group¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

A full 50 percent of them identify as independents, a larger percentage than any other age group.

From The Daily Beast

The fact that the link transcended age group and demographic does speak to its relevance.

From The Daily Beast

Guns kill twice as many in this age group as cancer, five times as many as heart disease and 20 times as many as infections.

From The Daily Beast

The Rangers staged a full cultural takeover among a certain age group of the population.

From The Daily Beast

But for every suicide in this age group, there are hundreds of other unsuccesful attempts.

From The Daily Beast

The age-group 15 to 20 shows very curious variations in the relative mortality of males and females.

From Project Gutenberg

In return, they gave me, not for my personal use, but a sound projector which was given to the Golden Age Group.

From Project Gutenberg

The UTC membership spans most of the age group that is drafted into the regular armed services and the security forces.

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The spread in size for any given age group is especially large, if data from different years are combined.

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The age group represented was of college men and there was no end of talent.

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