Detachment and Group

Detachment

Detachment noun - Lack of favoritism toward one side or another.

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Group and detachment are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Group" instead a noun "Detachment".

Nearby Words: detached, detach, detaching, detachable

Group noun - A number of things considered as a unit.

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Detachment and group are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Detachment" instead a noun "Group".

Nearby Words: grouping, grouped, groupment

full	full detachment	full group
special	special detachment	special group
particular	particular detachment	particular group
small	small detachment	small group
Other adjectives: entire, large, social, new, military, random, next, local, previous.

Airman Higgs at first seemed to be one of these - a common soldier being hauled along after a group of very important people and managing to maintain some degree of detachment.

Source: Unfazed Everyman
Their boss begged for them to have their own women (implied to be a detachment of military hookers), brought up from Earth, but was refused; a group of soldiers raping and murdering a Loonie woman is the spark that ignites the Revolution early.

Source: Literature / The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
John Birmingham's Axis of Time series combines this with Time Travel by exploring the consequences of a modern carrier group (including Prince Harry as the commander of its SAS detachment) being transported from 20 Minutes into the Future to the Battle of Midway.

Source: Alternate History / Literature

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