Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
- bikers
- originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers
- Islamic Resistance Movement
- a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon; seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel; is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel; pioneered suicide bombing
- fleet
- group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
- brokerage
- the business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties
- United States Trade Representative
- the executive agency that administers the President's policies on international trade
- Flavian dynasty
- a dynasty of Roman Emperors from 69 to 96 including Vespasian and his sons Titus and Domitian
- trap line
- a line or series of traps
- witches' brew
- a fearsome mixture
- car pool
- a small group of car drivers who arrange to take turns driving while the others are passengers
- power couple
- a couple both of whom have high-powered careers or are politically influential
- supporting players
- a cast other than the principals
- enemy
- an opposing military force
- fauvism
- an art movement launched in 1905 whose work was characterized by bright and nonnatural colors and simple forms; influenced the expressionists
- autarchy
- a political system governed by a single individual
- file allocation table
- the part of a floppy disk or hard disk where information is stored about the location of each piece of information on the disk (and about the location of unusable areas of the disk)
- Greek Orthodox Church
- state church of Greece; an autonomous part of the Eastern Orthodox Church
- race
- (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species
- Ottoman dynasty
- the Turkish dynasty that ruled the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century to its dissolution after World War I
- Jirga
- a Pashto term for a decision making assembly of male elders
- Dail Eireann
- the lower house of the parliament of the Irish Republic
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