national team

collocation in English

meaningsofnationalandteam

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national
adjective
uk
/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/us
/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/
relating to or typical of a whole country and its people, rather than to part of that country or to ...
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team
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/tiːm/us
/tiːm/
a number of people or animals who do something together as ...
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(Definition ofnationalandteamfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Even now this might be a worthwhile occupation, as it would remind the viewer of a time when ournationalteamlast played the beautiful game.
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Thenationalteamwas selected followingnationalteamcamps.
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The same dilemmas exist, but there is one fundamental difference; in rugby, thenationalteamdominates.
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The overall pilot programme is co-ordinated by anationalteam.
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Without that, the sport withers at amateur and junior levels and thenationalteamsuffers.
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Do not speak about thenationalteam, but about national teams.
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Akman was a member of the girls' youthnationalteamand the women's juniornationalteam.
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Akn was a member of the girls' youthnationalteamand the women's juniornationalteam.
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It controls the men'snationalteam, and the women'snationalteamteams.
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Bac was a member of the youthnationalteamand the women's juniornationalteam.
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It organized a men'snationalteamand a women'snationalteam.
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The behaviour and attitude of some of those who believe that they support ournationalteamis shameful.
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Many others follow, but it is thought that often they do not follow club teams, but thenationalteam.
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They also seem mightily relieved when we depart with ournationalteam, usually, and depressingly, quite early in the competition.
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In sport one cannot divorce international performance by anationalteamfrom the inspiration or the effect that it has.
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We want those who say that they support ournationalteamto take the threat very seriously.
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Indeed, an entirenationalteammay want to site itself in a particular area or at a particular venue.
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Another change we made, in response to one of the subsidiary criteria, was that thenationalteamshould be involved.
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It stipulated only that the final, semi-finals and any match featuring thenationalteamshould be on terrestrial television.
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He added that he would be left out of onenationalteamgame and then return to thenationalteam.
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He played 35 matches for the juniornationalteamand 60 matches for the seniornationalteam.
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Kangasniemi announced beforenationalteamseason 2009 that he is coming to retire fromnationalteamgames.
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He would go on to play four games for thenationalteam, but did not score anynationalteamgoals.
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She plays fornationalteam.
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In addition to 45 appearances for thenationalteam, she also played 16 times for the youthnationalteam, and 4 times for the juniornationalteam.
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