Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Medellin cartel
a drug cartel in Colombia; controlled the production of cocaine from the 1970s until 1993 when the leader was killed
 
collective farm
a farm operated collectively
 
military government
government by the military and an army
 
partnership
the members of a business venture created by contract
 
cast
the actors in a play
 
mishpocha
(Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends)
 
yoke
a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke
 
Second Council of Constantinople
the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic
 
Nestor Paz Zamora Commission
a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups; a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the 1960s
 
vertical union
a labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft
 
Merovingian dynasty
a Frankish dynasty founded by Clovis I that reigned in Gaul and Germany from about 500 to 750
 
center
the middle of a military or naval formation
 
country people
people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics
 
womankind
women as distinguished from men
 
football league
a league of football teams
 
minority
a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part
 
local authority
an administrative unit of local government
 
public
a body of people sharing some common interest
 
East Turkistan Islamic Movement
a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang; declared by China in 2001 to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression
 
Catholic school
a parochial school maintained by the Catholic Church
 
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