Work group / workgroup

[Brian]

The Canadian Oxford Dictionary makes a distinction between "workgroup" and
"working group":

Workgroup: (Computing) a group of people who have simultaneous access via a
computer network to shared software and data, which enables them to work
together on projects.

Working group: a group of people appointed to study a particular problem or
advise on some question.



Brian Denison
 

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> work is a word.
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> workgroup is not a word.
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> Dori Green
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