MEANING
Something regarded as having a distinct existence, whether physical, conceptual, or organizational.
Use it for
defining the unit an analysis treats as separate; distinguishing an organization from its components; identifying a thing without assuming it acts as a personSpecifies a distinct unit of analysis without automatically treating it as a single agent. Academic functions: Theory / Conceptual Language, Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- distinct entity
- separate legal entity
- analytical entity
On the page
The study treats each household as an entity for comparison but does not assume agreement among its members.
The subsidiary is a separate legal entity even though the parent company controls its strategy.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- entity
Usage notes
Count noun: entity, entities; separate entity; legal entity. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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