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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alliance; participation |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, assistance, association, band, body, brotherhood, business, cahoots, cartel, chumminess, clique, club, combination, combine, community, companionship, company, conglomerate, conjunction, connection, consociation, cooperation, cooperative, corporation, coterie, crew, faction, firm, fraternity, friendship, gang, help, hookup, house, interest, joining, lodge, mob, organization, ownership, party, ring, sharing, sisterhood, society, sorority, tie-up, togetherness, union |
| Notes: | a corporation is the name used in the United States for a business association established by one or more people who later sell shares in the corporation to investors; in a partnership, there are one or more owners who share jointly in the profits, liability |
| Main Entry: | syndicate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group of business entities |
| Synonyms: | association, board, bunch, cabinet, cartel, chain, chamber, combine, committee, company, conglomerate, council, crew, gang, group, megacorp, mob, multinational, organization, outfit, partnership, pool, ring, trust, union |
| Main Entry: | treaty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, contract |
| Synonyms: | accord, alliance, arrangement, bargain, bond, cartel, charter, compact, concord, concordat, convention, covenant, deal, entente, league, negotiation, pact, reconciliation, sanction, settlement, understanding |
| Notes: | a compact is a formal agreement on rights and conduct, a treaty is a compact between nations, and a contract is a compact between two business entities |
| Antonyms: | disagreement |
| Main Entry: | trust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large company |
| Synonyms: | bunch, business, cartel, chain, combine, conglomerate, corporation, crew, crowd, gang, group, institution, megacorp, mob, monopoly, multinational organization, outfit, pool, ring, syndicate |
| Main Entry: | confederation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | union |
| Synonyms: | alliance, association, bloc, brotherhood, cartel, coalition, confederacy, congress, federation, fellowship, fraternity, guild, league, order, organization, partnership, sisterhood, society, sorority, syndicate |
| Main Entry: | indocility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
| Synonyms: | affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, disorderliness, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, fractiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractability, intractableness, lip, muster*, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, untowardness, wildness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intractability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
| Synonyms: | affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, disorderliness, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, fractiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, indocility, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractableness, lip, muster*, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, untowardness, wildness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intractableness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unruliness |
| Synonyms: | affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, disorderliness, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, fractiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, indocility, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractability, lip, muster*, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, untowardness, wildness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | recalcitrance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defiance |
| Synonyms: | affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, despite, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractableness, lip, muster*, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrancy, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, unruliness |
| Notes: | reluctance is a feeling that is experienced; recalcitrance is an attitude that is shown |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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