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support group

A group of people, sometimes led by a therapist, who provide each other moral support, information, and advice on problems relating to some shared characteristic or experience: a support group for cancer survivors.

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support′ group`

a group of people who meet regularly to support or sustain each other by discussing problems affecting them in common, as alcoholism or bereavement.

[1985–90]

Translations

support group

n → Selbsthilfegruppe f

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