Synonyms for gang
gæŋgang

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1. gang

   A conspiracy is a combination of persons for an evil purpose, or the act of so combining. Conspiracy is a distinct crime under common, and generally under statutory, law. A faction is more extensive than a conspiracy, less formal in organization, less definite in plan. Faction and its adjective, factious, have always an unfavorable sense. Cabal commonly denotes a conspiracy of leaders. A gang is a company of workmen all doing the same work under one leader; the word is used figuratively only of combinations which it is meant to stigmatize as rude and mercenary; crew is used in a closely similar sense. A conclave is secret, but of larger numbers, ordinarily, than a cabal, and may have honorable use; as, the conclave of cardinals.

   Synonyms:
   cabal, combination, conclave, confederacy, conspiracy, crew, faction, junto

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1. gang, pack, ring, mobnoun

   an association of criminals

   "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves"

   Synonyms:
   mob, bunch, ringing, annulus, hoop, coterie, battalion, pack, plurality, work party, ingroup, large number, anchor ring, crowd, rabble, halo, multitude, rout, family, clique, inner circle, crime syndicate, closed chain, camp, ring, doughnut, crew, tintinnabulation, band, face pack, syndicate

2. crowd, crew, gang, bunchnoun

   an informal body of friends

   "he still hangs out with the same crowd"

   Synonyms:
   crowd, clump, mob, pack, clustering, bunch, crew, ring, cluster, lot, work party, caboodle

3. gang, crew, work partynoun

   an organized group of workmen

   Synonyms:
   crowd, mob, pack, bunch, crew, ring, work party

4. gangverb

   tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together

   Synonyms:
   ring, crew, bunch, crowd, mob, work party, pack

5. gang, gang upverb

   act as an organized group

   Synonyms:
   gang up

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1. gangnoun

   Synonyms:
   company, crew, band, horde, party, set, CLIQUE, COTERIE, CABAL

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1. gangnoun

   Synonyms:
   band, crew, company, group, crowd, set, squad, party, number, clique

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1. List of paraphrases for "gang":

   gangs, band, bunch, in-band, kang, ribbon, mob, strip, gang-related, guerrilla, motion, collective, posse, stripe

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1. Dwight D Eisenhower:

   The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

2. George Will:

   In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)

3. Jimmy Graves:

   We are not a gang. We do not do gang things. We are not affiliated with gangs.

4. Superintendent Garry McCarthy:

   That gang just signed its own death warrant, we're going to go in and destroy that gang and, by the way, the rival gang, too.

5. Alan Romero:

   The gang controlled the scheduling, and therefore even having a sick child that needed nonstop medical care was secondary to making sure the gang members got their preferred shifts, this was a practice that punished all patrol Deputies that either refused to join the gang or otherwise resisted the gangs far-reaching influence at the Station.