Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
- Congregational Church
- a Protestant denomination holding that each individual congregation should be self-governing
- Federal Reserve System
- the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commercial banks and some trust companies
- Mujahedeen Kompak
- a militant Islamic militia that was formed in 2005 by hardliners who split from Jemaah Islamiyah
- electromotive series
- a serial arrangement of metallic elements or ions according to their electrode potentials determined under specified conditions; the order shows the tendency of one metal to reduce the ions of any other metal below it in the series
- Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
- a Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change
- business sector
- business concerns collectively
- manicure set
- a set of implements used to manicure
- troika
- a modern Russian triumvirate
- fire department
- the department of local government responsible for preventing and extinguishing fires
- Fatah Tanzim
- a terrorist group organized by Yasser Arafat in 1995 as the armed wing of al-Fatah; serves a dual function of violent confrontation with Israel and serves as Arafat's unofficial militia to prevent rival Islamists from usurping leadership
- hudood
- Islamic laws stating the limits ordained by Allah and including the deterrent punishments for serious crimes
- bomber aircrew
- the crew of a bomber
- kolkhoz
- a collective farm owned by the communist state
- law merchant
- the body of rules applied to commercial transactions; derived from the practices of traders rather than from jurisprudence
- assembly
- a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose
- territorial
- a territorial military unit
- Sabbath school
- school meeting on Sundays for religious instruction
- Tang dynasty
- the imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907
- compost heap
- a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost
- Church of Scientology
- a new religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard in 1955 and characterized by a belief in the power of a person's spirit to clear itself of past painful experiences through self-knowledge and spiritual fulfillment
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