Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

succession
a group of people or things arranged or following in order
 
camp
a group of people living together in a camp
 
defence
(sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
 
constructivism
an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects
 
basketball league
a league of basketball teams
 
water company
a public utility that provides water
 
close corporation
a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market
 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
the federal police force of Canada
 
atheneum
a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning
 
crammer
a special school where students are crammed
 
task force
a semipermanent unit created to carry out a continuing task
 
panoply
a complete and impressive array
 
Laurel and Hardy
United States slapstick comedy duo who made many films together
 
house
a social unit living together
 
Society of Jesus
a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen; it is strongly committed to education and scholarship
 
people
members of a family line
 
travel agency
an agency that arranges personal travel
 
pyre
wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
 
septette
seven people considered as a unit
 
bureaucracy
any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
 
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