The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Executive government, Public administration, Government public administration.
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Trust busting
(law) government activities seeking to dissolve corporate trusts and monopolies (especially under the United States antitrust laws)
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Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Executive government, Public administration, Government public administration.of Govern
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Executive government, Public administration, Government public administration.The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or fam…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Executive government, Public administration, Government public administration.the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of gover…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Executive government, Public administration, Government public administration.the act of making or enacting laws
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Executive government, Public administration, Government public administration.of Legislate
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Executive government, Public administration, Government public administration.The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Executive government, Public administration, Government public administration.Bad government; want of government.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Executive government, Public administration, Government public administration.To rule badly; to misgovern.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Executive government, Public administration, Government public administration.The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Executive government, Public administration.Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisd…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Executive government, Public administration.Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Executive government, Public administration.an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tenn…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Executive government, Public administration.an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tenn…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Executive government, Public administration.That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that aris…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Executive government, Public administration.A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Politics and government.A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is…
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To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: government, activities, seeking, dissolve, corporate.An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the Unit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: government, activities, seeking, dissolve, corporate.The body of legal principles established in decisions made by courts.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: government, activities, seeking, dissolve, corporate.The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: government, activities, seeking, dissolve, corporate.A large town.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: government, activities, seeking, dissolve, corporate.(law) any monopoly or contract or combination or conspiracy intended to restrain commerce (which are illegal according to antitrust la…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: government, activities, seeking, dissolve, corporate.Law developed through judicial decisions and precedent rather than only through legislation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: government, activities, seeking, dissolve, corporate.The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: government, activities, seeking, dissolve, corporate.United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: government, activities, seeking, dissolve, corporate.the convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: government, activities, seeking, dissolve, corporate.Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: government, activities, seeking, dissolve, corporate.In a corporate capacity; acting as a corporate body.
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