# quaranteam
## English
### Etymology

Blend of quarantine +‎ team.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈkwɔɹ.ən.tim/, /ˈkɔɹ.ən.tim/
* (New York City) IPA: /ˈkwɑɹ.ən.tim/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkwɒɹ.ən.tiːm/, /ˈkwɒrn̩tiːm/

### Noun

quaranteam (plural quaranteams)
* (informal) A group of people who choose to quarantine together during a pandemic to limit exposure and maintain social interaction and support.
** 2020 April 17, Saba Hamedy, “People are ditching their homes and joining their friends to avoid isolation. It’s called quaranteaming”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 2024-04-19:Two weeks ago, Lichaa and Noulinthavong formed what some are calling a “quaranteam,” loosely defined as the group of people you choose to live with during the coronavirus pandemic.
** 2020 May 8, Emma Betuel, “Quarantine with friends? 5 tips experts say to consider”, in Inverse‎, archived from the original on 2024-04-19:Once in the quaranteam pod, you will have to adhere to a golden rule: You can't see anybody else. This is an extremely difficult rule to enforce, especially as quarantine drags on.
** 2020 May 23, Megan Thompson, “How to form a COVID-19 social ‘bubble’ or ‘quaranteam’”, in PBS‎, archived from the original on 2024-04-19:Gideon Lichfield, the Editor-in-Chief of the MIT Technology Review, recently broke two months of isolation to form with some friends what's known as a "pod," a "bubble" or a "quaranteam" — that's "team," with an "m."
** 2020 July 31, Erin Sagen, “Building a ‘Quaranteam’ is Helping People Deal With the Pandemic”, in Shondaland‎, archived from the original on 2024-04-19:And research suggests that the quaranteam model might be the answer for getting through what’s likely to be months more of social distancing.
** 2022 December, S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly, Roger Keil, Pandemic Urbanism: Infectious Diseases on a Planet of Cities, Polity Press, page 9:In closing, we thank our loved ones and "quaranteams" who afforded us this opportunity, during a period that required attention to care of others and ourselves, to carve out time to finish this work.

### Verb

quaranteam (third-person singular simple present quaranteams, present participle quaranteaming, simple past and past participle quaranteamed)
* (intransitive, informal) to quarantine together with a group of people; to form a quaranteam.
** 2020 April 17, Saba Hamedy, “People are ditching their homes and joining their friends to avoid isolation. It’s called quaranteaming”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 2024-04-19:For those who remain solo during the stay-at-home order – or for those who are in other undesirable living situations – the internet has made it possible to fantasize about who they could quaranteam with.
** 2020 May 8, Emma Betuel, “Quarantine with friends? 5 tips experts say to consider”, in Inverse (website):Inverse‎, archived from the original on 2024-04-19:Considering the risks, the most important thing to do before choosing to quaranteam is to establish trust with the people who you want to shack up with.
** 2020 July 31, Erin Sagen, “Building a ‘Quaranteam’ is Helping People Deal With the Pandemic”, in Shondaland‎, archived from the original on 2024-04-19:He made the decision mid-March to quaranteam with a woman he had been casually dating for two months, named Heff.
** 2023, Ismée Williams, Rebecca Balcárcel, Boundless: Twenty Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities, Inkyard Press, page 125:I don't envy him having a mostly virtual collage, but he's making the most of it, quaranTEAMing with his boyfriend and bingeing our parents's streaming services. I'm totally jealous.

#### Derived terms

* quaranteaming