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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organization |
| Synonyms: | academy, association, asylum, business, clinic, college, company, conservatory, establishment, fixture, foundation, guild, hospital, institute, institution, orphanage, school, seminar, seminary, society, system, university |
| Main Entry: | alma mater |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | school from which one has graduated |
| Synonyms: | academy, college, institution, old school, place of graduation, place of matriculation, university |
| Main Entry: | asylum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | psychiatric hospital |
| Synonyms: | institution, loony bin, madhouse, mental hospital, mental institution, sanatorium |
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | company, enterprise |
| Synonyms: | Mom and Pop, cartel, concern, corporation, establishment, factory, firm, fly-by-night operation, house, institution, market, megacorp, mill, monopoly, organization, outfit, partnership, setup, shoestring operation, shop, store, syndicate, trust, venture |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
| Main Entry: | creation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of entity |
| Synonyms: | conception, constitution, establishment, formation, formulation, foundation, generation, genesis, imagination, inception, institution, laying down, making, nascency, nativity, origination, procreation, production, setting up, siring |
| Antonyms: | destruction, ruin |
| Main Entry: | establishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organization; creation |
| Synonyms: | enactment, endowment, formation, formulation, foundation, founding, inauguration, installation, institution, setting up |
| Main Entry: | hospital |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place where ill, injured are treated |
| Synonyms: | clinic, emergency room, health service, hospice, infirmary, institution, nursing home, rest home, sanatorium, sanitarium, sick bay, surgery, ward |
| Main Entry: | inauguration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | installation of newcomers |
| Synonyms: | commencement, inaugural, induction, initiation, institution, investiture, launch, launching, opening, setting up |
| Notes: | the presidential induction ceremony is the inauguration; the speech made is the inaugural address or inaugural |
| Antonyms: | adjournment, close, end, finish |
| Main Entry: | induction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taking in, initiation |
| Synonyms: | consecration, draft, entrance, greetings, inaugural, inauguration, installation, instatement, institution, introduction, investiture, ordination, selection |
| Antonyms: | blackballing, expulsion, rejection |
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