Definitions

support group

NOUN

group providing support to members

Synonyms

WEAK

12-step group AA Alcoholics Anonymous Weight Watchers encounter group family friends morale boosters safety net self-help group support system therapy

Example Sentences

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She was 49, a full-time professor of sociology and humanities at Vanier College in Montreal and a mother raising five teenagers; she’d tried to start a support group with friends, but everyone was too busy to schedule a second meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal

And so, in March 1984, tinkering with the personal computer she had bought her children for Christmas, Cobb launched what she called “a support group through the mail.”

From The Wall Street Journal

But a friend from a support group then put Natalie in touch with surgeon Prof Reza Nouraei, consultant ear nose and throat surgeon at the QMC, after she started to find it very difficult to breathe.

From BBC

"He saw this as a chance to be released instead of being imprisoned for 10 years of strict regime," reads a statement from his support group.

From BBC

After a fruitless search for a support group, Aled put a message on Facebook in February 2024 to see if any other dads wanted to chat.

From BBC