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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drive, campaign |
| Synonyms: | change, crusade, current, demonstration, displacement, drift, evolution, faction, flight, flow, front, group, grouping, march, mobilization, organization, party, patrol, shift, sweep, swing, tendency, transfer, transition, trend, unrest, withdrawal |
| Antonyms: | indifference |
| Main Entry: | partnership |
| 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: | party |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group supporting certain beliefs |
| Synonyms: | alliance, association, bloc, body, cabal, clique, coalition, combination, combine, confederacy, coterie, electorate, faction, grouping, junta, league, ring, sect, set, side, union |
| Main Entry: | persuasion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, religion |
| Synonyms: | bias, camp, certitude, church, communion, connection, conviction, credo, creed, cult, denomination, eye, faction, faith, feeling, mind*, opinion, partiality, party, predilection, prejudice, school, school of thought, sect, sentiment, side, tenet, view |
| Antonyms: | atheism, disbelief |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opening, split |
| Synonyms: | breach, break, chink, cleavage, crack, discord, dissension, division, faction, fissure, flaw, fracture, gash, hole, perforation, rift, rip, rupture, schism, slash, slit, tatter, tear |
| Antonyms: | closed |
| Main Entry: | ring |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group participating together |
| Synonyms: | Mafia, association, band, bloc, bunch, cabal, camp, cartel, cell, circle, clan, clique, coalition, combination, combine, corner, coterie, crew, crowd, faction, gang, in-group, junta, junto, knot, mob, monopoly, organization, outfit, party, pool, push, racket, syndicate, troop, troupe, trust |
| Main Entry: | schism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | separation |
| Synonyms: | alienation, break, breakup, difference, disagreement, discord, dissension, disunion, division, divorce, faction, fissure, fracture, gap, parting, rift, rupture, secession, splinter group, split |
| Main Entry: | school |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | persons receiving education |
| Synonyms: | academy, adherents, circle, class, clique, denomination, devotees, disciples, faction, followers, following, group, party, pupils, sect, set |
| Main Entry: | sect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | school of thought |
| Synonyms: | camp, church, communion, connection, creed, crew, cult, denomination, division, faction, faith, following, group, order, party, persuasion, religion, school, splinter group, team, wing |
| Notes: | a sect is a rule defined by some doctrinal difference, a cult by allegiance to an idea or commanding personality |
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