support group

English

Noun

support group (plural support groups)

1. A group of people who informally support each other over a problem which all of its members share.

   If you can't stay sober, you need a support group like Alcoholics Anonymous.

   • 2018 July 26, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “A documentary muckraker takes on the tech sector of health in The Bleeding Edge”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 July 2018:

     Its heroes are the women who meet in support groups and through Facebook; who talk openly about ruined sex lives and medical horrors; who come out to picket shareholder meetings and industry conferences.

Translations

group of people who support each other

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 互助組 / 互助组 (zh) (hùzhùzǔ)

• Dutch: steungroep (nl) m or f, praatgroep (nl) m or f
• Finnish: tukiryhmä (fi), oma-apuryhmä, vertaisryhmä (fi)
• French: groupe de parole (fr) m
• German: Selbsthilfegruppe (de) f
• Polish: grupa wsparcia f
• Romanian: grup de sprijin n, grup de suport n