#body.group  a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"
  supertype:  gathering__assemblage  a group of persons together in one place
  subtype:  public  a body of people sharing some common interest; "the reading public"
  subtype:  sector.body  a body of people who form part of society or economy; "the public sector"
     subtype:  business_sector__business  business concerns collectively; "Government and business could not agree"
  subtype:  Christendom__Christianity  the collective body of Christians throughout the world and history; "for a thousand years the Roman Catholic Church was the principal church of Christendom"
  subtype:  Sacred_College  (Roman Catholic Church) the body of cardinals who advise the Pope and elect new Popes
  subtype:  governance__administration__establishment__brass__bras__organisation  the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a governing body and who administer something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment"
     subtype:  top_brass__topbras  the most important persons in a governing body
     subtype:  executive  persons who administer the law
        instance:  Clinton_administration  Bush_administration  Reagan_administration  Carter_administration
     subtype:  judiciary__bench  persons who administer justice
     subtype:  government_officials__officialdom  people elected or appointed to administer a government
        subtype:  civil_service__civilservice  government workers; usually hired on the basis of competitive examinations
        subtype:  bureaucracy__bureaucratism  nonelective government officials
           subtype:  Pentagon.bureaucracy__pentagon  the United States military establishment
     subtype:  management_staff__management  those in charge of running a business
  subtype:  corps.body__corp  a body of people associated together; "diplomatic corps"
     subtype:  diplomatic_service__diplomatic_corps__corps_diplomatique__corpsdiplomatique  the body of diplomatic personnel
  subtype:  constituency  the body of voters who elect a representative for their area
  subtype:  electoral_college__electoralcollege  the body of electors who formally elect the United States president and vice-president
  subtype:  school.body  a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting"
     subtype:  Ashcan_School  a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life
     subtype:  historical_school  a school of 19th C German economists and legal philosophers who tried to explain modern economic systems in evolutionary or historical terms
  subtype:  college  the body of faculty and students of a college
     subtype:  business_college  a school for teaching the clerical aspects of business and commerce
     subtype:  junior_college  a college that offers only the first two years terminating in an associate degree
        subtype:  community_college__communitycollege  a nonresidential junior college offering a curriculum fitted to the needs of the community
        subtype:  normal_school__teachers_college  a two-year school for training elementary teachers
     subtype:  training_college  (Brit) a school providing training for a special field or profession
  subtype:  university.body  the body of faculty and students at a university
     subtype:  varsity  a British abbreviation; usually Oxford and Cambridge Universities
  subtype:  faculty__staff  the body of teachers and administrators at a school; "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university"
  subtype:  colony__settlement  a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
     subtype:  frontier_settlement__outpost  a settlement on the frontier of civilization
     subtype:  proprietary_colony__proprietarycolony  a colony given to a proprietor to govern (in 17th century)
     instance:  Plymouth_Colony  New_Netherland
  subtype:  leaders__leader__leadership  the body of people who lead a group; "the national leadership adopted his plan"
     subtype:  Rome  the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church
     subtype:  high_command__supreme_headquarters  the highest leaders in an organization (e.g. the commander-in-chief and senior officers of the military)
  subtype:  membership.body__rank  the body of members of an organization or group; "they polled their membership"; "they found dissension in their own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed"
  subtype:  occupational_group__vocation  a body of people doing the same kind of work
     subtype:  profession.occupational_group__community  the body of people in a learned occupation; "the news spread rapidly through the medical community"
        subtype:  legal_profession__legalprofession__bar__legal_community__legalcommunity  the body of individuals qualified to practice law
        subtype:  health_profession  the body of individuals whose work helps to maintain the health of their clients
           subtype:  medical_profession__medicalprofession__medical_community__medicalcommunity  the body of individuals who practice medicine
           subtype:  nursing.health_profession  the profession of a nurse
        subtype:  businessmen__business_community  the body of individuals who manage businesses
        subtype:  community_of_scholars  the body of individuals holding advanced academic degrees
        subtype:  economics_profession__economicsprofession  the body of professional economists
        subtype:  priesthood  the body of ordained religious practitioners
           subtype:  ministry.priesthood  religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian)
           subtype:  rabbinate  rabbis collectively
           subtype:  clergy  clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity)
              subtype:  pastorate  pastors collectively
              subtype:  prelature__prelacy  prelates collectively
              subtype:  first_estate__firstestate__lords_spiritual__lordsspiritual  the first of the three estates of the realm; the clergy in France and the lords spiritual in Britain
              subtype:  cardinalate  cardinals collectively
  subtype:  opposition  a body of people united in opposing something
  subtype:  inspectorate  a body of inspectors
  subtype:  jury  a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law
     subtype:  grand_jury__grandjury  a jury to inquire in accusations of crime and to evaluate the grounds for indictments
     subtype:  hung_jury  a jury that is unable to agree on a verdict (the result is a mistrial)
     subtype:  petit_jury__petitjury__petty_jury__pettyjury  a jury of 12 to determine the facts and decide the issue in civil or criminal proceedings
     subtype:  special_jury__specialjury__blue_ribbon_jury  a jury whose members are selected for special knowledge for a case involving complicated issues
  subtype:  panel.body  a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc
  subtype:  venire__panel  (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
  subtype:  vote.body  a body of voters who have the same interests; "he failed to get the Black vote"

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