The least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence; -- opposed to maximum.
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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 coming between; intervention; interposition.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Economics, Labour economics.The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition;…
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 act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Quantitative academic language.The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of mira…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Quantitative academic language.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: Academic vocabulary, Quantitative academic language.A falling on or upon; an incident; an event.
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.Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness.
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.To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?
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.The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide e…
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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 act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: least, possible, needed, enforce, standards.To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: least, possible, needed, enforce, standards.A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: least, possible, needed, enforce, standards.A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.
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.A property that makes particles attract or repel electrically.
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 strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: least, possible, needed, enforce, standards.A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeite…
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