a committee appointed to consider ethical issues
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical ethics, Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.
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a committee appointed to consider ethical issues
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an enclosed volume in the body; "the chambers of his heart were healthy"
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.a situation in which a public official's decisions are influenced by the official's personal interests
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical ethics.the speech act of making something evident
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical ethics.consent by a patient to undergo a medical or surgical treatment or to participate in an experiment after the patient understands the r…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical ethics.the speech act of making something evident
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical ethics.the speech act of making something evident
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Medical ethics.pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind; "He acted the idiot"; "She plays deaf when the news are bad"
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind; "He acted the idiot"; "She plays deaf when the news are bad"
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal; "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal; "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.a statute in draft before it becomes law; "they held a public hearing on the bill"
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal; "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.
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The state of being appointed to som/ service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: committee, appointed, consider, ethical, issues.The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: committee, appointed, consider, ethical, issues.To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: committee, appointed, consider, ethical, issues.To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: committee, appointed, consider, ethical, issues.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: committee, appointed, consider, ethical, issues.moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: committee, appointed, consider, ethical, issues.a government monetary authority that issues currency and regulates the supply of credit and holds the reserves of other banks and sell…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: committee, appointed, consider, ethical, issues.a verdict resulting from improper compromises between jurors on material issues
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: committee, appointed, consider, ethical, issues.To weigh in the mind; to consider the reasons for and against; to consider maturely; to reflect upon; to ponder; as, to deliberate a q…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: committee, appointed, consider, ethical, issues.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: committee, appointed, consider, ethical, issues.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: committee, appointed, consider, ethical, issues.an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: committee, appointed, consider, ethical, issues.Alt. of Ethical
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: committee, appointed, consider, ethical, issues.Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: committee, appointed, consider, ethical, issues.the meta-ethical view that nothing is intrinsically moral or immoral.; "The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reali…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: committee, appointed, consider, ethical, issues.a doctrine that ethics and ethical ideas are valid and important; "his ethicism often led him to moralize"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: committee, appointed, consider, ethical, issues.an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: committee, appointed, consider, ethical, issues.Having power to examine; appointed to examine; as, an examining committee.
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