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POLITICAL ENTITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A unit with political responsibilities
Synonyms:
political entity; political unit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("political entity" is a kind of...):
social unit; unit (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "political entity"):
advocacy group; lobby; lobby group; pressure group; special-interest group; special interest; special interest group; third house (an interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor, typically through lobbying)
body politic; commonwealth; country; land; nation; res publica; state (a politically organized body of people under a single government)
Holy Roman Empire (a political entity in Europe that began with the papal coronation of Otto I as the first emperor in 962 and lasted until 1806 when it was dissolved by Napoleon)
union (a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations)
Palestine Authority; Palestine National Authority; Palestinian National Authority (combines the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under a political unit with limited autonomy and a police force; created in 1993 by an agreement between Israel and the PLO)
cadre; cell (a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement)
amphictyony (an association of neighboring states or tribes in ancient Greece; established originally to defend a common religious center)
lunatic fringe (a political unit with extreme and fanatical views)
revolutionary group (a political unit organized to promote revolution)
Holonyms ("political entity" is a member of...):
form of government; political system (the members of a social organization who are in power)
