Definitions for in-group

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Spelling: [in-groop]
IPA: /ˈɪnˌgrup/

In-Group is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 2 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in in-group (-ginopru).

Definitions for in-group

noun

  1. a narrow exclusive group; clique.
  2. Sociology. a group of people sharing similar interests and attitudes, producing feelings of solidarity, community, and exclusivity. Compare out-group.

Origin of in-group

First recorded in 1905-10; in-1 + group

Examples for in-group

So far as sympathy was developed at all, it was in the in-group, between comrades.

You'd have formed your own in-group, as prisoners, dedicated to your own welfare.

Affection, after all, is what the in-group use of the n-word expresses.

These exigencies also make government and law in the in-group, in order to prevent quarrels and enforce discipline.

In the in-group it was so far from being an act of hostility, or veiled impropriety, that it was applied to the closest kin.

Comrades in an in-group have never forced these on each other.

It would be easy to dismiss this “small town” idea as a code for an in-group whose happy few run everything through their network.

Our research indicates they can end up having a similar effect to an 'in-group' in high school that others aspire to join.

This control by the in-group over its members makes for solidity and impenetrability in its relations with the out-group.

He describes the transition from contacts of the out-group to those of the in-group, or from remote to intimate relations.

Word Value for in-group
Scrable

2

Words with friends

3

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