go team

A form of go-team — A team of specialists that is called on as a task force to quickly respond to and investigate accidents.

Meanings

go team1

noungo team (plural go teams)

plural go teams

  1. alternativeAlternative form of go-team.

    A siren wailed in the distance, the high-pitched howl of Boston Medical Center's go team.

    2014, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Truth Be Told: A Jane Ryland Novel, →ISBN
    3 more examples

    The NTSB has used the super-sleuthing go teams from the time it was established twelve years ago to investigate major accidents.

    1979, Newsweek - Volume 93, page 41

    The go team were clustered in a group in the center of the clearing, around two of their own, a man and a woman.

    1997, Dana Stabenow, Breakup, →ISBN, page 27

    In addition to the indispensable role of the paramedic, the role of the nurse and physician in the field can be of great value, as the concept of “go teams” (physicians and nurses who go from the hospital to the scene) has illustrated.

    2008, Karen A. McQuillan, Mary Beth Flynn Makic, Eileen Whalen, Trauma Nursing, →ISBN

Go Team2

nounGo Team (plural Go Teams)

plural Go Teams

  1. alternativeAlternative form of go-team.

    Like Yaqub, Bob had joined the Go Team to do a job that quickly evaporated.

    2007, Joel Hafvenstein, Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan Frontier, →ISBN, page 91
    2 more examples

    What's at issue here is that you have once again failed to keep me informed of what you are up to and now you are about to get on a plane with one of my Go Teams and insert yourself into an extremely delicate situation.

    2012, Vince Flynn, The Last Man, →ISBN

    Angie was flying the Cessna as the NTSB's Go Team had airlifted the damaged Piper Cub from the Goodfellow's mine to Cheyenne for further inspection and possible repairs.

    2014, Bill Burch, Kelly Burch, Return to Rocky Mountain Watershed: Its River - Its People, →ISBN
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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