Term: british commonwealth: an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown
Candidate hypernym: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) → 1
Candidate hypernym: face time: work time spent at the location of or in the presence of other people → 0
Candidate hypernym: majority rule: the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group → 0
Candidate hypernym: sapper: a military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines → 0
Candidate hypernym: straightness: (of hair) lack of a tendency to curl → 0
Candidate hypernym: time period: an amount of time → 0
Candidate hypernym: syndication: organizing into or administering as a syndicate → 0
Candidate hypernym: drawing: act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source → 0
Candidate hypernym: lending: disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned → 0
Candidate hypernym: drill rig: rig used in drilling for oil or gas → 0
Candidate hypernym: malthusianism: Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence → 0