To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to as…
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Economic development
the sustained, concerted actions of policy makers and communities that promote the standard of living and economic health of a specific area.; "The Five-Year Economic Development Strategy is the District's first strategic roadmap for sustained, sector-driven economic development."
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The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support.
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Development economics.The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or me…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Development economics.Alt. of Economical
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Development economics.gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause; "economic assistance to depressed areas"
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Development economics.gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause; "economic assistance to depressed areas"
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Development economics.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, Development economics.the system of production and distribution and consumption
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Development economics.Pertaining to the household; domestic.
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Development economics.The science of household affairs, or of domestic management.
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Development economics.The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disburse…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Development economics.gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause; "economic assistance to depressed areas"
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Development economics.gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause; "economic assistance to depressed areas"
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Development economics.of Grow
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Development economics.The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full siz…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Development economics.Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human v…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Development economics.The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty.
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Development economics.The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparit…
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Of a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sustained, concerted, actions, policy, makers.an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sustained, concerted, actions, policy, makers.Self-sufficiency.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sustained, concerted, actions, policy, makers.That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and dete…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sustained, concerted, actions, policy, makers.The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sustained, concerted, actions, policy, makers.A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sustained, concerted, actions, policy, makers.Love; universal benevolence; good will.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sustained, concerted, actions, policy, makers.of Concert
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sustained, concerted, actions, policy, makers.That which is contained; the extent; the substance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sustained, concerted, actions, policy, makers.A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sustained, concerted, actions, policy, makers.The act of cooperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sustained, concerted, actions, policy, makers.A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early par…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sustained, concerted, actions, policy, makers.To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sustained, concerted, actions, policy, makers.The cooperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communiti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sustained, concerted, actions, policy, makers.A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers.
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