Synonyms for troop

noun

troop is applied to a group of people organized as a unit a cavalry troop, or working or acting together in close cooperation troops of sightseers; troupe is the current form with reference to a group of performers, as in the theater or a circus; company is the general word for any group of people associated in any of various ways the whole company of his detractors; band suggests a relatively small group of people closely united for some common purpose and, in a more specific sense, a group of musicians a band of thieves, a brass band