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search party

noun

  1. a group of persons conducting an organized search for someone or something lost or hidden.


search party

noun

  1. a group of people taking part in an organized search, as for a lost, missing, or wanted person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of search party1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

Some had even been part of the search party when Ahmad went missing.

He therefore organized a search party of all the male servants on the estate, besides a couple of volunteers, making in all nine.

Excepting herself and Marian, there was nobody in the house but the cook, whose husband had also joined the search party.

I agree with Jessie that the townspeople should send out a search party, and I for one refuse to give up the hike.

I had not told anyone that I proposed to come to the Blue John mine, and it was unlikely that a search party would come after me.

As in duty bound they told him; and the search party turned in the direction of the log shanty.

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