voluntary association

noun

1. a group of individuals joined together on the basis of mutual interest or common objectives, especially a business group that is not organized or constituted as a legal entity.

Example Sentences

This rule has sometimes been applied to a voluntary association, making it responsible as a corporation.

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Unless some rule or statute forbids, a member of a voluntary association may withdraw at any time.

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By these charters what had originally been a voluntary association now became an exclusive body to which trade was restricted.

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It followed from the decision of the council that the English Church in a self-governing colony is a voluntary association.

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But what is to be the nature of the voluntary association in detail?

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