system
noun
[ ˈsɪstəm ]
• a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network; a complex whole.
• "the state railway system"
Similar:
structure,
organization,
order,
arrangement,
complex,
apparatus,
network,
administration,
institution,
set-up,
• a set of principles or procedures according to which something is done; an organized scheme or method.
• "the public-school system"
Similar:
method,
methodology,
technique,
process,
procedure,
approach,
practice,
line,
line of action,
line of attack,
attack,
means,
way,
manner,
mode,
framework,
modus operandi,
scheme,
plan,
policy,
programme,
regimen,
set of principles,
set of procedures,
set of guidelines,
formula,
routine,
tactic,
tack,
• the prevailing political or social order, especially when regarded as oppressive and intransigent.
• "don't try bucking the system"
Similar:
the establishment,
the authorities,
the powers that be,
the ruling class,
the regime,
bureaucracy,
officialdom,
the status quo,
the regimen,
• a set of staves in a musical score joined by a brace.
Origin:
early 17th century: from French système or late Latin systema, from Greek sustēma, from sun- ‘with’ + histanai ‘set up’.
