Noun

A team; a group of people who work together professionally.

# A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.

# (label) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.

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# A unit of firefighters and their equipment.

# (label) The entire crew of a ship.

# (label) Nickname for an intelligence service.

(label) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.

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(label) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.

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(label) Social visitors or companions.

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(label) Companionship.

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Noun

The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others.

A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.

He took pride in his work.

He had pride of ownership in his department.

* (rfdate) Macaulay

A people which takes no pride' in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with ' pride by remote descendants.

* (rfdate) (William Blake)

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris.

* (rfdate) G. K. Chesterton, Introduction to Aesop's Fables

Pride goeth before the fall.

That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children etc.

* (rfdate) Spenser

lofty trees yclad with summer's pride

* (rfdate) Bible, Zech. ix. 6

I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

* (rfdate) Goldsmith

a bold peasantry, their country's pride

(zoology) The small European lamprey species .

Show; ostentation; glory.

* (rfdate) Shakespeare

Pride , pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.

Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory,

* to be in the pride of one's life.

* (rfdate) Shakespeare

a falcon, towering in her pride of place

Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.

Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.

(zoology) A company of lions.