COLLECTIVES Synonyms

• the state of being allied or confederated

• a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest

• an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

• a formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim

• the act of forming an alliance or confederation

• a group of persons together in one place

• a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose

• the social act of assembling

• several things grouped together or considered as a whole

• a group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit

• the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)

• a public facility to meet for open discussion

• a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose

• a unit consisting of components that have been fitted together

• the social act of assembling

• a formal organization of people or groups of people

• the act of consorting with or joining with others

• the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination

• the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination

• a social or business relationship

• a relation resulting from interaction or dependence

• (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding

• (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species

• an unofficial association of people or groups

• instrumentalists not including string players

• a stripe or stripes of contrasting color

• an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material

• a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing

• a range of frequencies between two limits

• a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body)

• a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure

• jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger

• a driving belt in machinery

• a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration

• a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)

• a restraint put around something to hold it together

• bind or tie together, as with a band

• attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify

• the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)

• a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity

• a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person

• an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects

• the body excluding the head and neck and limbs

• a collection of particulars considered as a system

• the property of holding together and retaining its shape

• the central message of a communication

• the main mass of a thing

• a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin)

• the external structure of a vehicle

• invest with or as with a body; give body to

• a grouping of a number of similar things

• come together as in a cluster or flock

• gather or cause to gather into a cluster

• an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

• the state of being combined into one body

• the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts

• a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church

• an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together

• the act of congregating

• a large number of things or people considered together

• an informal body of friends

• cause to herd, drive, or crowd together

• fill or occupy to the point of overflowing

• to gather together in large numbers

• approach a certain age or speed

• a group of persons together in one place

• the social act of assembling

• the act of gathering something

• sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching

• any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

• (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

• a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse

• arrange into a group or groups

• form a group or group together

• a formal association of people with similar interests

• a group of people who work together

• an organized structure for arranging or classifying

• the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something

• the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business

• an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized

• the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically

• the act of forming or establishing something

• an organization to gain political power

• a gathering of people for pleasure

• a band of people associated temporarily in some activity

• an occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment

• a person involved in legal proceedings

• have or participate in a party

• an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

• a formal association of people with similar interests

• the state of being with someone

• the fashionable elite

• a cooperative unit (especially in sports)

• two or more draft animals that work together to pull something

• form a team

• of or belonging to a corporation

• possessing or existing in bodily form

• done by or characteristic of individuals acting together

• organized and maintained as a legal corporation