What is an entity?

An entity is a legally recognized and formally structured grouping of people focused on some common cause or objective.

Here are some examples of entities:

• SIL
• an SIL branch
• UNESCO

• Concept module: entity
• In overview module: Glossary (Literacy): E
• In modular book: Glossary of literacy terms
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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