Team vs. Partner — What's the Difference?

A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal. As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, "[a] team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to information, resources, knowledge and skills and who seek to combine their efforts to achieve a common goal".A group does not necessarily constitute a team.

Either of a pair of people engaged together in the same activity

A group on the same side, as in a game.

Either member of a married couple or of an established unmarried couple

The members of a team who are actively playing at a given time

A person with whom one has sex; a lover

A group organized for work or activity

A timber framework secured to and strengthening the deck of a wooden ship around a hole through which a mast, capstan, pump, etc. pass

Two or more draft animals used to pull a vehicle or farm implement.

Be the partner of

A vehicle along with the animal or animals harnessed to it.

A member of a business partnership.

A group of animals exhibited or performing together, as horses at an equestrian show.

A spouse.

A brood or flock.

A domestic partner.

To harness or join together so as to form a team.

A lover.

To transport or haul with a draft team.

Either of two persons dancing together.

To form a team or an association. Often used with up.

One of a pair or team in a sport or game, such as tennis or bridge.

To drive a team or truck.

Often partners(Nautical) A wooden framework used to strengthen a ship's deck at the point where a mast or other structure passes through it.

A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.

To become partners or work or associate as partners

Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.

To be or make a partner of

(obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.

Either of a pair of people or things that belong together.

A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.

Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest.

A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.

A member of a business or law partnership.

(intransitive) To form a group, as for sports or work.

A spouse or other person with whom one shares a domestic, romantic or sexual bond.

To go together well; to harmonize.

Someone with whom one dances in a two-person dance.

(transitive) To convey or haul with a team.

Someone with whom one plays on the same side in a game, such as card games or doubles tennis.

(transitive) To form together into a team.

(nautical) One of the pieces of wood comprising the framework which strengthens the deck of a wooden ship around the holes through which the mast and other fittings pass.

(transitive) To give work to a gang under a subcontractor.

(Jamaica) A group financial arrangement in which each member contributes a set amount of money over a set period.

A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter.

(transitive) To join as a partner.

Hence, a number of animals moving together.

To work or perform as a partner.

Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like.

One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer.

A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc.

An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership.

A flock of wild ducks.

A framework of heavy timber surrounding an opening in a deck, to strengthen it for the support of a mast, pump, capstan, or the like.

A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.

To associate, to join.

To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster.

A person's partner in marriage

To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber.

An associate who works with others toward a common goal;

A cooperative unit

A person who is a member of a partnership

Two or more draft animals that work together to pull something

Provide with a partner

Form a team;

Act as a partner;