Although the word individual sounds singular because it relates to one person, it is possible to have two or more individuals.
This is the case in your sentence.
Saeed, is there a legal requirement for your site to use the right words?
If so, you may want to check with a lawyer instead.
If not, I think "individual" and "organization" covers them; the latter encompasses both for-profit companies and non-profit organizations.
This is US-speak, at least.
Individual animals take on specialized roles to ensure the entire group is fed.
Each animals take on specialized roles to ensure the entire group is fed.
Is there any meaning difference between th...
The device of at times addressing the individual within the crowd was used in Hebrew by Moses (and his Boss), in Deuteronomy, as T A Lenchak, and doubtless other commentators, point out.
What's the grammatical class of "we" when referring to a group in its entirety versus when referring to each individual member of the group.
For example, if I said to my girlfriend: We w...
Is there a word for a name/term that has multiple words that means other than what the individual words imply?
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You also asked for "an object alone, but can be assembled into something greater." Thus, I'm going to say synergistic element.
Because synergy is: the interaction of multiple elements in a system to produce an effect different from or greater than the sum of their individual effects.
Consider that originally individual indicated separateness and indivisibility which was intimately close to the era of flourishing individualism so that these properties have been projected towards a human person, and thus you get an 'individual' instead of a 'person.'
