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A team player is someone who cooperates and works well with others, as in We need everyone on our side to be a team player in this tug-of-war game if we’re going to win.

Team player began as a sports phrase describing a player on a team who works and plays well with their teammates to win competitions. To be a team player in basketball, for example, a player would need to be willing to pass the ball to teammates who are in a position to throw the ball into the net. Even though the person passing the ball doesn’t actually score, they are helping their team to score, being a good team player.

Team player is often used figuratively to describe someone working for the benefit of everyone involved. For example, an employee who voluntarily helps a new coworker learn the company’s software might be called a team player. The employee is taking time away from their work to help someone else get started in their own work. The effort might not get the employee’s tasks done, but it will help the company as a whole get its tasks done.

In politics, when someone is referred to as a team player, it often means they are willing to work with politicians from parties other than their own to support the people they represent.��

Example: We need someone who will be a team player, listening to what each member of the organization has to say.

The first records of the term team player come from around the 1880s. It’s an Americanism that combines the terms team and player.

What are some words that share a root or word element with team player?��

• team
• player
• team spirit
• teammate��

What are some words that often get used in discussing team player?

• collaboration
• cooperation
• complementary
• goals
• helpful

Team player can be used to describe anyone who works in cooperation with others, whether they’re on a formal team or not.

At the end of the Seahawks-49ers game, Seattle ran a jet sweep touch pass to WR David Moore when they could have just taken a knee to run the clock.

As it turns out, Moore needed just one more catch to reach a receptions incentive. Likely was Seattle rewarding a team player.

— Field Yates (@FieldYates)

6-year-old: I can help out by finishing off the ice cream.

Me: How does that help?

6: Then we can buy more ice cream.

Team player.

— James Breakwell, Exploding Unicorn (@XplodingUnicorn)

Maybe Antonio Brown saw that Hard Knocks episode 1 wasn’t very entertaining and wanted to be a team player and save us from more awkward Derek Carr moments?

— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat)

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Is team player used correctly in the following sentence?

“The senator’s staff are team players who will work with the staff of senators from other political parties in order to pass laws that help everyone.”