Cabal vs. Gang — What's the Difference?

A cabal is a group of people who are united in some close design, usually to promote their private views or interests in an ideology, a state, or another community, often by intrigue and usually unbeknownst to those who are outside their group. The use of this term usually carries negative connotations of political purpose, conspiracy and secrecy.It can also refer to a secret plot or a clique, or it may be used as a verb (to form a cabal or secretly conspire).

A gang is a group or society of associates, friends or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior. Gangs arose in America by the middle of the nineteenth century and were a concern for city leaders from the time they appeared.

A conspiratorial group of plotters or intriguers

A group of criminals or hoodlums who band together for mutual protection and profit.

A secret scheme or plot.

A group of adolescents who band together, especially a group of delinquents.

To form a cabal; conspire.

(Informal) A group of people who associate regularly on a social basis

A secret political clique or faction.

A group of laborers organized together on one job or under one foreperson

(pejorative) A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.

A matched or coordinated set, as of tools

A secret plot.

A pack of wolves or wild dogs.

An identifiable group within the tradition of Discordianism.

A herd, especially of buffalo or elk.

(intransitive) To engage in the activities of a cabal.

Variant of gangue.

Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala.

To band together as a group or gang.

A secret.

To arrange or assemble into a group, as for simultaneous operation or production

A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto.

To attack as an organized group.

The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.

To go; walk; proceed.

To unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot.

(transitive) To attach similar items together to form a larger unit.

A clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue

Pronunciation spelling of gan

A plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)

Synonym of gangbang: to have sex with a single partner as a gang.

Engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together;

A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad.

A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.

A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.

A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.

(US) A chain gang.

A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.

A set; all required for an outfit.

(electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.

(electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.

A going, journey; a course, path, track.

(obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

To go; to walk.

A going; a course.

A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.

A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows.

A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays.

The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.

A group of teenagers or young adults forming a more or less formalized group associating for social purposes, in some cases requiring initiation rites to join; as, a teen gang; a youth gang; a street gang.

A group of persons organized for criminal purposes; a criminal organization; as, the Parker gang.

An association of criminals;

An informal body of friends;

An organized group of workmen

Tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together

Act as an organized group