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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