search party

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Noun

search party (plural search parties)

  1. A group of people who search for someone or something lost.
    After their daughter went missing, her parents sent out a search party after her.
    • 1978 November 17, 1:26:38 from the start, in The Star Wars Holiday Special (Science Fiction), →OCLC:
      Is this a report about the missing trooper?
      It is, sir. Trooper B Four Seven Eleven was here with three other men. They left and he remained. And soon as they had gone, he packed a lot of food from this house and he robbed me blind. Then he took off to the hills.
      Very well. We'll send out a search party.

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