Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
- nursing
- the profession of a nurse
- pesantran
- a Muslim school in Indonesia operated by religious leaders; produces young militants skilled in jihad
- inspectorate
- a body of inspectors
- traffic court
- a court that has power to prosecute for traffic offenses
- Bronte sisters
- a 19th century family of three sisters who all wrote novels
- sevensome
- seven people considered as a unit
- securities industry
- the securities markets in the aggregate
- banking industry
- banks collectively
- biotype
- organisms sharing a specified genotype or the genotype (or peculiarities) so shared
- Schutzstaffel
- special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps
- clutch
- a number of birds hatched at the same time
- Ulster Defence Association
- the major Protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland; responsible for bombing the homes of Catholics and for criminal racketeering and selling drugs
- world council
- a council with representatives from different nations
- alphabet soup
- a confusing assortment
- support system
- a network of facilities and people who interact and remain in informal communication for mutual assistance; a network that enables you to live in a certain style
- army unit
- a military unit that is part of an army
- Federal Reserve Board
- the seven-member board governing the Federal Reserve System
- United States Government Printing Office
- an agency of the legislative branch that provides printing and binding services for Congress and the departments and establishments of the federal government
- finance company
- a financial institution (often affiliated with a holding company or manufacturer) that makes loans to individuals or businesses
- Central Intelligence Machinery
- the United Kingdom's central unit for the tasking and coordination and funding of intelligence and security agencies
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