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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group working on project |
| Synonyms: | board, bureau, cabinet, chamber, commission, consultants, convocation, council, investigators, jury, panel, representatives, task force, trustees |
| Main Entry: | board |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group of advisers |
| Synonyms: | advisers, advisory group, brass, cabinet, committee, conclave, council, directorate, directors, execs, executive suite, executives, front office, jury, panel, trustees, upstairs |
| Notes: | a board is a committee having supervisory powers, a plank, or food served to lodgers - while bored is tired of the world a plank is thicker than a board |
| Antonyms: | individual, one |
| Main Entry: | bureau |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | branch of an organization |
| Synonyms: | agency, authority, board, commission, committee, department, division, front office, office, salt mines, service, setup, shop, store |
| Main Entry: | cabinet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | executives serving a leader |
| Synonyms: | administration, administrators, advisers, assembly, assistants, authority, brain trust, bureau, bureaucracy, committee, council, counselors, department heads, governing body, government, kitchen cabinet, ministry, official family |
| Main Entry: | commission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group working together toward goal |
| Synonyms: | board, commissioners, committee, delegation, deputation, representative |
| Main Entry: | congress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delegation of representatives |
| Synonyms: | assembly, association, caucus, chamber, club, committee, conclave, conference, convention, convocation, council, delegates, government, guild, league, legislative body, legislature, meeting, order, parliament, senate, society, the Hill, the house, union |
| Main Entry: | council |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | people assembled for purpose |
| Synonyms: | assembly, board, body, brain trust, cabinet, chamber, clan, committee, conclave, confab, conference, congregation, congress, convention, convocation, diet, directorate, gang, gathering, governing body, groupthink, huddle, kitchen cabinet, meet, ministry, mob, official family, outfit, panel, parliament, powwow, ring, senate, synod |
| Notes: | counsel is 'advice, guidance' and a counsel is a lawyer; a council is a deliberative body of people assembled for some purpose and members are councillors (especially in Britain) |
| Main Entry: | embassy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | residence, offices of overseas representatives |
| Synonyms: | commission, committee, consular office, consulate, delegation, diplomatic office, legation, ministry, mission |
| Notes: | embassy originally had the spelling variant ambassy and is based on Latin ambactus 'servant'; an embassy is the one entity maintained by a foreign country by each nation, whereas a consulate may be situated in a number of cities of a foreign country |
| 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 |
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