Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
- ministry
- a government department under the direction of a minister of state
- professional association
- an association of practitioners of a given profession
- paramilitary
- a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops)
- Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic
- commanding officer of ACLANT; a general of the United States Army nominated by the President of the United States and approved by the North Atlantic Council
- government
- the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
- redevelopment authority
- a public administrative unit given responsibility for the renovation of blighted urban areas
- ulema
- the body of Mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community
- Hapsburg
- a royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806
- Territorial Army
- British unit of nonprofessional soldiers organized for the defense of Great Britain
- league
- an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action
- United States Intelligence Community
- a group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States government; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence
- venation
- (botany) the arrangement of veins in a leaf
- night court
- a criminal court (in large cities) that sits at night
- gridlock
- a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible
- motorcade
- a procession of people traveling in motor cars
- coterie
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- clade
- a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor
- calendar
- a tabular array of the days (usually for one year)
- soldiery
- soldiers collectively
- Nag Hammadi Library
- a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism
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