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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How to use gang in a sentence?

1. John McCarthy:

   We cut the head off of the gang by basically getting very lengthy jail sentences for 42 members of the leadership of MS-13.

2. Van Duyne:

   They're looking at what's happening at our southern border. They don't like what they're seeing in their streets as a result of that, they don't like the increase death and fentanyl. They don't like to encourage sex trafficking in gang traffic that they're seeing in their streets.

3. Oliver Diaz Gutierrez of Houston:

   We were always taught that there were always the potential that little things can lead to big things. Now they're taking that away from us, so now those gang members that are out there on the street know that they can't be stopped.

4. Ted Cruz:

   Anybody who was AWOL from the battle on the Gang of Eight has no standing as a candidate now to say they will enforce the border.

5. Amy Swearer:

   A chronic absenteeism rates, kids are just not going back to school, and they’re getting caught up in a lot of other types of delinquency, you saw the same thing with sort of the loss of gang violence intervention services, sort of formal and informal… bulwarks within the communities during COVID. You don’t fix that overnight.