the least possible; "needed to enforce minimal standards"; "her grades were minimal"; "minimum wage"; "a minimal charge for the servic…
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the least possible; "needed to enforce minimal standards"; "her grades were minimal"; "minimum wage"; "a minimal charge for the service"
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the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Economics, Labour economics.the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Economics, Labour economics.(statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Quantitative academic language.negotiation between an employer and trade union
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Labour economics.the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Quantitative academic language.the ratio of the number of observations in a statistical category to the total number of observations
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Quantitative academic language.a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Quantitative academic language.the relative frequency of occurrence of something
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Quantitative academic language.the market in which workers compete for jobs and employers compete for workers
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Labour economics.an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Labour economics.the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small); "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"; "about the m…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Quantitative academic language.the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold; "without competition there would be no market"; "they w…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Labour economics.the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold; "without competition there would be no market"; "they w…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Labour economics.(used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Quantitative academic language.the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay; determined by contract or by law
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Labour economics.(statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Quantitative academic language.a superiority in numbers or amount; "a preponderance of evidence against the defendant"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Quantitative academic language.
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A registry mark given by underwriters (as at Lloyd's) to ships in first-class condition. Inferior grades are indicated by A 2 and A 3.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: least, possible, needed, enforce, standards.A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: least, possible, needed, enforce, standards.The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: least, possible, needed, enforce, standards.the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: least, possible, needed, enforce, standards.A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: least, possible, needed, enforce, standards.A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were H…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: least, possible, needed, enforce, standards.any pleading that fails to conform in form or substance to minimum standards of accuracy or sufficiency
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: least, possible, needed, enforce, standards.the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: least, possible, needed, enforce, standards.To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: least, possible, needed, enforce, standards.Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was af…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: least, possible, needed, enforce, standards.To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: least, possible, needed, enforce, standards.To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: least, possible, needed, enforce, standards.
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