core group

1. 1.

   a small group of indispensable persons or things

   “five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program”

   Synonymscorenucleus

   Broaderset

   Narrowercadre

Questions about core group

What does core group mean?

core group means "a small group of indispensable persons or things".

What is another word for core group?

Close synonyms include core, nucleus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is core group a common word?

core group is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.