Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
- show biz
- those involved in providing entertainment: radio and television and films and theater
- executive council
- a council that shares the supreme executive power
- minstrelsy
- a troupe of minstrels
- suburbia
- suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture
- ministry
- a government department under the direction of a minister of state
- sector
- a social group that forms part of the society or the economy
- pension fund
- a financial institution that collects regular contributions from employers to provide retirement income for employees
- United States Secret Service
- the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents
- riding school
- a school where horsemanship is taught and practiced
- bachelor party
- stag party held for a bachelor (usually on the night before he is married)
- room
- the people who are present in a room
- electorate
- the body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote
- real matrix
- a matrix whose elements are all real numbers
- trip wire
- a small military force that serves as a first line of defense; if they become engaged in hostilities it will trigger the intervention of stronger military forces
- fatigue party
- a group of soldiers on fatigue duty
- East Turkistan Islamic Movement
- a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang; declared by China in 2001 to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression
- Party of Democratic Kampuchea
- a communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970; became a terrorist organization in 1975 when it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people; was defeated by Vietnamese troops but remained active until 1999
- Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
- a center in the Department of Homeland Security that trains law enforcement professionals for more than seventy federal agencies
- management consulting
- a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business
- Forces of Umar Al-Mukhtar
- a little known Palestinian group responsible for bombings and for killing Israelis; seeks to defeat Israel and liberate southern Lebanon, Palestine, and Golan Heights
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