search party

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   a party of people to search for someone

   Broaderparty

Questions about search party

What does search party mean?

search party means "a party of people to search for someone".

Is search party a common word?

search party 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.