conference, panel, board, body, congregation, assembly, inquisition, caucus, legislature, parliament, chamber, coalition, court, cadre, symposium, congress, forum, summit, convention, quorum, league, committee, cabinet, tribunal, meeting, council.

mob, caucus, band, bunch, cell, flock, detachment, force, colony, fellowship, team, division, league, retinue, regiment, tribe, junta, ring, outfit, gang, wing, drove, union, assemblage, covey, pack, posse, string, litter, detail, cadre, company, hive, circle, clique, phalanx, school, bevy, party, troop, platoon, society, coterie, complement, coalition, assembly, battalion, troupe, host, group, staff, body, club, army, crew, collection, cabal, sect, aggregation, clan, fleet, set, crowd, nest, fraternity, squad, brigade, herd.

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One faction did not want to have the Opera House opened at all. - "Haydn", J. Cuthbert Hadden.

That my Lord Chancellor do from hence begin to be cold to him, because of his seeing him and Arlington so great: that nothing at Court is minded but faction and pleasure, and nothing intended of general good to the kingdom by anybody heartily; so that he believes with me, in a little time confusion will certainly come over all the nation. - "Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright", Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke.

For a faction was forming with Hynds House as its storm- center, and it was one which threatened Mrs. Scarboro's hitherto unquestioned sovereignty. - "A Woman Named Smith", Marie Conway Oemler.

safety factor, Rh Factor, rhesus factor, stable factor, spreading factor, Thyrotropin-releasing Factor, tumor necrosis factor, Tumour Necrosis Factor, think factory, steel factory.