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consortia
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group which shares business interest |
| Synonyms: | bunch*, chain, combine, conglomerate, consortium, corporation, crew*, crowd*, gang*, holding company, megacorp, mob*, monopoly, multinational, outfit*, plunderbund, pool, ring*, syndicate, trust |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | league |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association, federation |
| Synonyms: | alliance, band, bunch, circle, circuit, club, coalition, combination, combine, compact, company, confederacy, confederation, conference, consortium, crew, gang, group, guild, loop, mob, order, organization, outfit, partnership, pool, ring, society, sodality, union, unit |
| Main Entry: | marriage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | legal joining of two people; a union |
| Synonyms: | alliance, amalgamation, association, confederation, conjugality, connubiality, consortium, coupling, espousal, holy matrimony, link, match, mating, matrimony, merger, monogamy, nuptials, pledging, sacrament, spousal, tie, tie that binds, wedded bliss, wedded state, wedding, wedding bells, wedding ceremony, wedlock |
| Antonyms: | divorce |
| Main Entry: | monopoly |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something held, owned exclusively |
| Synonyms: | cartel, consortium, copyright, corner, holding, oligopoly, ownership, patent, pool, possessorship, proprietorship, syndicate, trust |
| Antonyms: | distribution, joint-ownership, scattering, sharing |
| Main Entry: | organization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group bound by interest/work/ goal |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, aggregation, alliance, association, band, body, business, cartel, circle, clique, club, coalition, combination, combine, company, concern, concord, confederation, consortium, cooperative, corporation, coterie, crew, establishment, federation, fraternity, guild, house, industry, institute, institution, league, lodge, machine, monopoly, order, outfit, party, profession, set, society, sodality, sorority, squad, syndicate, team, trade, troupe, trust, union |
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| Main Entry: | marriage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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affianced, affinal, antenuptial, apopemptoclinic, betrothed, bridal, conjugal, connubial, cornuted, desponsate, digamous, disespoused, dotal, eligible, endogamous, engaged, extramarital, hitched, horn, levirate, marital, maritorious, marriageable, married, married all over, matrimonial, morganatic, nubile, nuptial, one, one bone and one flesh, pentapopemptic, polyandrous, preternuptual, spousal, unmarried, uxorial, wedded
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| Main Entry: | organization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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arranged, cut and dried, embattled, in battle array, methodical, orderly, platted, pragmatic, raisonné, regular, rubric, systematic
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| Concept: | Combination. |
| Category: | 3. CONJUNCTIVE QUANTITY |
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combine, unite, incorporate, amalgamate, embody, absorb, reembody, blend, merge, fuse, melt into one, consolidate, coalesce, centralize, impregnate; put together, lump together; cement a union, marry.
-adjectives
combined; impregnated with, ingrained; imbued, inoculated.
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| Antonyms: | decomposition |
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| Concept: | Marriage. |
| Category: | 1. Social Affections |
| Synonyms: |
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marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union, intermarriage, miscegenation, the bonds of marriage, vinculum matrimonii, nuptial tie., married state, coverture, bed, cohabitation; the old ball and chain., match; betrothment (promise); wedding, nuptials, Hymen, bridal; espousals, spousals; leading to the altar; nuptial benediction, epithalamium; sealing., torch of Hymen, temple of Hymen; hymeneal altar; honeymoon., bridesmaid, bridesman; bride, bridegroom. married man, married woman, married couple; neogamist, Benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate; husband, man, consort, baron; old man, good man; wife of one's bosom; helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife., feme, feme coverte; squaw, lady; matron, matronage, matronhood; man and wife; wedded pair, Darby and Joan; spiritual wife., monogamy, bigamy, digamy, deuterogamy, trigamy, polygamy; mormonism; levirate; spiritual wifery, spiritual wifeism; polyandrism; Turk, bluebeard., unlawful marriage, left-handed marriage, morganatic marriage, ill-assorted marriage; mesalliance; marriage de convenance., marriage broker; matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent, matrimonial bureau; schatchen.
-verbs
marry, wive, take to oneself a wife; be married, be spliced; go off, pair off; wed, espouse, lead to the hymeneal altar, take "for better for worse," give one's hand to, bestow one's hand upon., marry, join, handfast; couple (unit); tie the nuptial knot; give away, give away in marriage; seal; ally, affiance; betroth (promise); publish the banns, bid the banns; be asked in church.
-adjectives
married; one, one bone and one flesh. marriageable, nubile., engaged, betrothed, affianced., matrimonial, marital, conjugal, connubial, wedded; nuptial, hymeneal, spousal, bridal.
-phrases
the gray mare the better horse; "a world-without-end bargain" [Love's Labor's Lost]; "marriages are made in Heaven" [Tennyson]; "render me worthy of
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| Antonyms: | celibacy (singleness); divorce |
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