Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
- adhocracy
- an organization with little or no structure
- reception line
- a line of people (hosts and guests of honor) who welcome the guests at a reception party
- choir
- a chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony
- nexus
- a connected series or group
- advisory board
- a board appointed to advise the chief administrator
- High Commission
- an embassy of one British Commonwealth country to another
- Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
- a corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages
- al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya
- a terrorist organization of militant Islamists organized into tiny cells of extreme fundamentalists; emerged during the 1970s mainly in Egyptian jails
- obeah
- (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery
- cavalry
- a highly mobile army unit
- findings
- a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes
- Uniate Church
- any of several churches in eastern Europe or the Middle East that acknowledge papal authority but retain their own liturgy
- pastorate
- pastors collectively
- choir school
- a school that is part of a cathedral or monastery where boys with singing ability can receive a general education
- South America
- the nations of the South American continent collectively
- vested interest
- groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit
- Anglican Communion
- the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs); has its see in Canterbury and the sovereign as its temporal head
- presidium
- a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session
- pro-life faction
- those who argue that induced abortion is killing and should be prohibited
- declension
- a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
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