grouping (n.)

• alliance
• analysis
• appraisal
• arrangement
• assemblage
• assessment
• association
• assortment
• atmosphere
• axis
• balance
• band
• batch
• battalion
• bevy
• bloc
• blood
• body
• bracket
• branch
• brigade
• brushwork
• bunch
• cabal
• cast
• caste
• categorization
• category
• clan
• class
• classification
• clique
• clump
• cluster
• coalition
• codification
• cohort
• college
• color
• combination
• combine
• company
• complement
• composition
• confederacy
• confederation
• contingent
• cooperative
• copse
• corps
• coterie
• council
• covey
• crew
• crop
• crowd
• culling
• design
• detachment
• detail
• division
• draftsmanship
• estate
• evaluation
• faction
• factoring
• federation
• filing
• fleet
• gang
• gradation
• grade
• grading
• group
• grove
• hassock
• head
• heading
• identification
• indexing
• junta
• kin
• knot
• label
• league
• level
• line
• lot
• machine
• mess
• mob
• movement
• order
• outfit
• pack
• partnership
• party
• perspective
• phalanx
• pigeonhole
• pigeonholing
• placement
• platoon
• position
• posse
• predicament
• race
• ranging
• rank
• ranking
• rating
• regiment
• ring
• rubric
• salon
• screening
• section
• selection
• sept
• set
• shading
• shadow
• shock
• sifting
• slew
• society
• sorting
• squad
• stable
• station
• status
• strain
• stratification
• stratum
• string
• subdivision
• subgroup
• suborder
• subordination
• tabulation
• taxonomy
• team
• technique
• thicket
• tier
• title
• tone
• treatment
• triage
• tribe
• troop
• troupe
• tuft
• tussock
• typology
• union
• values
• weighing
• wing
• winnowing
• wisp