| Main Entry: | association |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group with common interest or pursuit |
Synonyms: |
affiliation, alliance, band, bunch, circle, clan, clique, club, coalition, combination, combo, company, confederacy, confederation, congress, cooperative, corporation, crew, crowd, family, federation, fellowship, fraternity, gang, guild, hookup, league, mob, order, organization, outfit, partnership, pool, rat pack, ring, society, sodality, sorority, syndicate, tie-in, tie-up, tribe, troops, troupe, union, zoo |
| Main Entry: | combination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alliance, association |
Synonyms: |
affiliation, bloc, cabal, cahoots, camarilla, cartel, circle, clique, club, coadunation, coalition, combine, compound, confederacy, confederation, conjunction, connection, consolidation, consortium, conspiracy, coterie, faction, federation, gang, guild, hookup, mafia, melding, mergence, merger, merging, partnership, party, pool, ring, set, syndicate, tie-up, trust, unification, union |
Antonyms: |
dissolution, disunion, separation, severance |
| Main Entry: | conjunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | combination |
Synonyms: |
affiliation, agreement, alliance, association, cahoots, coincidence, concomitance, concurrence, congruency, conjointment, hookup, juxtaposition, parallelism, partnership, tie-up, union |
| Notes: | a conjunction is a word that connects: a coordinating conjunction connects similar elements (you and I), while a correlative conjunction has related parts (either/or) |
Antonyms: |
detachment, disconnection, division, separation |
| Main Entry: | connection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that connects, links |
Synonyms: |
affiliation, alliance, association, attachment, bond, combination, conjointment, conjunction, coupling, fastening, hookup, joining, joint, junction, juncture, link, linkage, network, partnerhip, seam, tie, tie-in, tie-up, union |
Antonyms: |
disconnection |
| Main Entry: | delay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deferment, interruption |
Synonyms: |
adjournment, bind, check, cooling-off period, cunctation, dawdling, demurral, detention, discontinuation, downtime, filibuster, hangup, hindrance, hold-up, holding, holding pattern, impediment, interval, jam, lag, lingering, logjam, loitering, moratorium, obstruction, postponement, problem, procrastination, prorogation, putting off, remission, reprieve, retardation, retardment, setback, showstopper, stall, stay, stop, stoppage, surcease, suspension, tarrying, tie-up, wait |
Antonyms: |
advance, dispatch, expedition, furtherance, hastening, hurry, rush, speed |
| Main Entry: | entanglement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complication, predicament |
Synonyms: |
affair, association, cobweb, complexity, confusion, difficulty, embarrassment, embroilment, enmeshment, ensnarement, entrapment, imbroglio, intricacy, intrigue, involvement, jumble, knot, liaison, mesh, mess, mix-up, muddle, snare, tangle, tie-up, toil, trap, web |
Antonyms: |
disentanglement, simplicity |
| Main Entry: | junction/juncture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | link, connection |
Synonyms: |
alliance, annexation, articulation, assemblage, attachment, bond, coalition, coherence, collocation, combination, combine, concatenation, concourse, concursion, confluence, conjugation, consolidation, convergence, coupling, crossing, crossroads, dovetail, elbow, gathering, gore, hinge, hookup, interface, intersection, joining, joint, knee, linking, meeting, miter, mortise, node, pivot, plug-in, reunion, seam, splice, terminal, tie-in, tie-up, union, weld |
| Main Entry: | link |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | component, connection |
Synonyms: |
articulation, association, attachment, bond, channel, connective, constituent, contact, copula, coupler, coupling, division, element, fastening, hitch, hookup, in, interconnection, interface, intersection, joining, joint, junction, knot, ligament, ligation, ligature, loop, member, network, nexus, part, piece, relationship, ring, seam, section, splice, tie, tie-up, vinculum, weld, yoke |
Antonyms: |
whole |
| Main Entry: | merger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consolidation |
Synonyms: |
alliance, amalgamation, cahoots, coadunation, coalition, combination, fusion, hookup, incorporation, lineup, melding, mergence, merging, organization, pool, takeover, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union |
Antonyms: |
division, parting, separation |
| 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 |