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Organization

The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.

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Broader term 9

Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Administration 76% connected

The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office…

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Beginning 76% connected

of Begin

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Body 76% connected

The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

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Commencement 76% connected

The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.

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Disposal 76% connected

The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.

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Orderliness 76% connected

The state or quality of being orderly.

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Start 76% connected

To leap; to jump.

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Structure 76% connected

The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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Narrower term 58

Affiliate 76% connected

To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.

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Alignment 76% connected

The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adj…

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Alinement 76% connected

Same as Alignment.

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Alliance 76% connected

The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially betw…

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Association 76% connected

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.

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Bench 76% connected

A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.

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Blue 76% connected

Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets.

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Brotherhood 76% connected

The state of being brothers or a brother.

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Bureaucracy 76% connected

A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a syste…

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Calendar 76% connected

An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the yea…

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Coalition 76% connected

The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms.

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Colonization 76% connected

The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies.

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Commission 76% connected

The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.

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Company 76% connected

The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse.

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Contrivance 76% connected

The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.

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Curia 76% connected

One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.

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data structure 76% connected

A way of arranging information inside a program.

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Defence 76% connected

See Defense.

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Defense 76% connected

Alt. of Defence

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Delegacy 76% connected

The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power.

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Delegation 76% connected

The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.

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Deputation 76% connected

The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.

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Design 76% connected

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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Distribution 76% connected

The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate am…

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Enterprise 76% connected

That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduo…

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Establishment 76% connected

The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

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Executive 76% connected

Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of t…

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Federation 76% connected

The act of uniting in a league; confederation.

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Force 76% connected

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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Gray 76% connected

White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray ey…

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Grey 76% connected

See Gray (the correct orthography).

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Hierarchy 76% connected

Dominion or authority in sacred things.

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Host 76% connected

The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.

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Institution 76% connected

The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.

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Judiciary 76% connected

Of or pertaining to courts of judicature, or legal tribunals; judicial; as, a judiciary proceeding.

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Lattice 76% connected

Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework.

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Listing 76% connected

of List

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Machine 76% connected

In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmi…

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Management 76% connected

The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as,…

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Mission 76% connected

The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.

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Ontology 76% connected

That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as suc…

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Order 76% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Ordering 76% connected

of Order

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Party 76% connected

A part or portion.

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Personnel 76% connected

The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from materiel.

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Plan 76% connected

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation o…

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Polity 76% connected

The form or constitution of the civil government of a nation or state; the framework or organization by which the various departments of government a…

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Pool 76% connected

A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for wat…

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randomisation 76% connected

Using a random method to reduce systematic differences between groups.

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Rationalization 76% connected

The act or process of rationalizing.

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Reorganization 76% connected

The act of reorganizing; a reorganized existence; as, reorganization of the troops.

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Settlement 76% connected

The act of setting, or the state of being settled.

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Systematization 76% connected

The act or operation of systematizing.

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Trade union 76% connected

An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor,…

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trades union 76% connected

Alt. of Trade union

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Troupe 76% connected

A company or troop, especially the company pf performers in a play or an opera.

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Union 76% connected

The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.

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Unit 76% connected

A single thing or person.

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Derivationally related 4

Devise 74% connected

To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive;…

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Devise 74% connected

To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive;…

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Organize 74% connected

To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter;…

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Organize 74% connected

To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter;…

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Containing whole 3

Government 70% connected

The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.

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Regime 70% connected

Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system.

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Hierarchy 70% connected

Dominion or authority in sacred things.

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Member part 3

Membership 70% connected

The state of being a member.

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Quorum 70% connected

Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a quorum of the House of Repres…

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Rank 70% connected

Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.

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Synonym 8

Administration 92% connected

The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office…

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Arrangement 92% connected

The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

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Brass 92% connected

An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes cont…

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Constitution 92% connected

The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.

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Establishment 92% connected

The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

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Formation 92% connected

The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

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Governance 92% connected

Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement.

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System 92% connected

An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects…

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