| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A unit of troops on special assignment: detail. See GROUP. 2. Dissociation from one's surroundings or worldly affairs: aloofness, distance, remoteness. See ATTITUDE, CONCERN, INCLUDE, NEAR. 3. The act or process of detaching: disconnection, disengagement, separation, uncoupling. See ASSEMBLE. 4. The act or an instance of separating one thing from another: disjunction, disjuncture, disseverance, disseverment, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, parting, partition, separation, severance, split. See ASSEMBLE, PART. 5. The quality or state of being just and unbiased: disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, dispassionateness, equitableness, fair-mindedness, fairness, impartiality, impartialness, justice, justness, nonpartisanship, objectiveness, objectivity. See FAIR. 6. A group of people organized for a particular purpose: body, corps, crew, force, gang, team, unit. See GROUP.
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