team player

noun

: someone who cares more about helping a group or team to succeed than about his or her individual success

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It’s also proved to be a beneficial metaphor for casting Allred as a team player. Char Adams, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024 And while Pau Victor is a former reserve team player only just cutting his teeth in the elite, Fati is the owner of Lionel Messi's number 10 shirt and the Lamine Yamal of his day that smashed a number of youngest goalscoring records at the turn of the decade on the cusp of his 17th birthday. Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024 Unfortunately for the day's ringmaster, Claire's plans for an epic house of horrors aren't exactly going smoothly — and neither are Mitchell’s (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) intentions to be a team player by dressing up as Spider-Man at work. Nicole Briese, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024 Become a team player with Club Waka Soccer in Glendale. Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for team player 

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“Team player.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/team%20player. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.

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