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BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A corporation that operates through a national council that charters local councils all over the United States; the purpose is character building and citizenship training
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Boy Scouts of America" is a kind of...):
corp; corporation (a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state)
Holonyms ("Boy Scouts of America" is a member of...):
Boy Scouts (an international (but decentralized) movement started in 1908 in England with the goal of teaching good citizenship to boys)
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