五ご人にん組ぐみ

noun

five-person group; quintet

General term for any group of five people, such as a team, committee, or musical quintet.

• このプロジェクトは五ご人にん組ぐみで進すすめている。

  We are advancing this project as a five-person group.

• 彼かれらは五ご人にん組ぐみのバンドを結けっ成せいした。

  They formed a five-member band.

noun

five-household mutual-aid unit (Edo period)

Historical term for a neighborhood group of five households responsible for mutual aid, tax collection, and self-protection during the Edo period. Now archaic.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの五ご人にん組ぐみは、年ねん貢ぐの納のう入にゅうや防ぼう犯はんに責せき任にんを負おった。

  The five-household units of the Edo period were responsible for tax payment and crime prevention.