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Preside

To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate.

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Command 76% connected

To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.

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Control 76% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Admiral noun · 78% connection

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…

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allele noun · 78% connection

(genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and t…

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Allelomorph noun · 78% connection

(genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and t…

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Bureaucracy noun · 78% connection

A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradic…

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Chair noun · 78% connection

The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair.

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Colonel noun · 78% connection

The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.

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Commander noun · 78% connection

A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it.

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Constructive possession noun · 78% connection

(law) having the power and intention to have and control property but without direct control or actual presence upon it

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Controller noun · 78% connection

One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.

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Direct adjective · 78% connection

straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"

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Elector noun · 78% connection

One of the persons chosen, by vote of the people in the United States, to elect the President and Vice President.

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Executive noun · 78% connection

An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the gover…

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executive function noun · 78% connection

Mental skills used for planning, focus and self-control.

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Fast reactor noun · 78% connection

nuclear reactor in which nuclear fissions are caused by fast neutrons because little or no moderator is used

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Fill adjective · 78% connection

To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president f…

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Firewarden noun · 78% connection

An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- ca…

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Govern verb · 78% connection

To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority.

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Governess noun · 78% connection

A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of c…

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