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search party
noun
- a group of persons conducting an organized search for someone or something lost or hidden.
search party
noun
- a group of people taking part in an organized search, as for a lost, missing, or wanted person
Word History and Origins
Origin of search party1
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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