the army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare
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the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial
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a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the c…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, History, Media and communication, Advertising and public relations, Military history, Parties and campaigns.the campaign of a candidate to be elected
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, History, Media and communication, Advertising and public relations, Military history, Parties and campaigns.the campaign of a candidate to be elected
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, History, Media and communication, Advertising and public relations, Military history, Parties and campaigns.a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the c…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, History, Media and communication, Advertising and public relations, Military history, Parties and campaigns.a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the c…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, History, Media and communication, Advertising and public relations, Military history, Parties and campaigns.a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the c…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, History, Media and communication, Advertising and public relations, Military history, Parties and campaigns.the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Philosophy, General economics, Philosophy of science.(economics) a theory of commercial activities (such as the production and consumption of goods)
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Philosophy, General economics, Philosophy of science.the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Philosophy, General economics, Philosophy of science.a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the c…
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Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, History, Media and communication, Advertising and public relations, Military history, Parties and campaigns.(economics) a theory of competition stated in terms of gains and losses among opposing players
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Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, Politics and government, History, Philosophy of science.the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes who advocated government monetary and fiscal programs intended to stimulate business acti…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Philosophy, General economics, Philosophy of science.an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Philosophy, General economics, Philosophy of science.Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence
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the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing; "the authorship of the theory is disputed"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theory, increasing, consumption, goods, economically.(physics) a theory of atomic structure that combined Rutherford's model with the quantum theory; electrons orbiting a nucleus can only…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theory, increasing, consumption, goods, economically.the original version of string theory, developed in the late 1960s.; "Although bosonic string theory has many attractive features, it…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theory, increasing, consumption, goods, economically.(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theory, increasing, consumption, goods, economically.With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theory, increasing, consumption, goods, economically.Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from cer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theory, increasing, consumption, goods, economically.Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumpt…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theory, increasing, consumption, goods, economically.the branch of geology that deals with economically valuable geological materials
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theory, increasing, consumption, goods, economically.derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; "an empirical basis for an ethical theory"; "empirical laws"; "empirical d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theory, increasing, consumption, goods, economically.derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; "an empirical basis for an ethical theory"; "empirical laws"; "empirical d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theory, increasing, consumption, goods, economically.The theory of generation which holds that the germ is created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power of the paren…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theory, increasing, consumption, goods, economically.a very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extracta…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: theory, increasing, consumption, goods, economically.
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