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(law) Alternative spelling of four L [A law student in his or her fourth year of law school; generally an unusual situation occurring where a student has either taken an extended part-time curriculum, or has failed a class needed for graduation and must stay on for an extra semester after the three L year.]
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(law) Alternative spelling of four L [A law student in his or her fourth year of law school; generally an unusual situation occurring where a student has either taken an extended part-time curriculum, or has failed a class needed for graduation and must stay on for an extra semester after the three L year.]
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(chiefly formal) Alternative letter-case form of act of parliament [A law which has received assent (royal, presidential or gubernatorial) after having been passed by the houses (or house) of a parliament.]
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(business, obsolete) A shareholder in a joint-stock company.
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(uncountable, informal) Administration, or administrative work.
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Something that aids or supports.
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(transitive, obsolete) To administer or govern.
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(informal) The administrative layers of an organization's hierarchy
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One who administers something.
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(uncountable) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.
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One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager
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Obsolete form of administer. [(transitive) To cause to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.]
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Administrative details that must be dealt with in order to do more interesting work.
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Archaic spelling of administer. [(transitive) To cause to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.]
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One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to do the business of another
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(law) the period during which a person works as an articled clerk; articling
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A code of regulations for the government and discipline of the army and navy.
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(Australia) administration of a grant by one group on behalf of another
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(law) An undergraduate degree in the study of law.
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A group of people elected by stockholders to establish corporate policies and make management decisions.
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A person knowledgeable about the law, accounting, and regulation affecting budgets, especially governmental.
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Obsolete form of charter. [A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.]
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(law) Continuing Legal Education, the professional education of lawyers that takes place after their initial admission to the bar.
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(transitive) To administer (a drug, etc.) along with another material.
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Uniform Code of Military Justice
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To commission (an artist, an artwork)
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The thing to be done as agent for another.
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One who has received a commission.
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Someone commissioned to perform certain duties.
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(India) Part of a district placed under the control of a police commissioner.
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(law) The branch of law which deals with the formation and running of companies.
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(business, countable) A corporation that franchises, as opposed to an individual franchise.
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(management) Synonym of CXO
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A position as a demonstrator (at a university etc.).
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Controlled or guided by a central authority, as in an economy.
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An agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else.
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(computing) A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.
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(law, often capitalized and italicized in legislations) A official periodical publication published by a government containing legal and state notices, and in some cases, legislations, subsidiary legislations and bills.
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(transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
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(uncountable) Any articles issued in conformity with US military regulations or procedures
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administered by a clinician on behalf of a patient
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Relating to the administration of medical facilities
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(US politics) A combined spending bill for multiple departments that is smaller than an omnibus bill.
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Of a position which is held by a certain person permanently (in an administration or academy).
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(UK) Initialism of old-age pensioner. [(Britain) A person in receipt of an old age pension, a senior citizen.]
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(business) public-private partnership
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(US, education) A subsidy provided by the United States federal government to students who need it to pay for college.
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Abbreviation of public law. [(law) A category of law governing the relationship between the state on the one hand and persons (citizens or legal persons including corporations) on the other. Constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law are some of the major subdivisions of public law.]
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the implementation of public policy by governmental bodies; the administration of governmental functions; the administration of a state.
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A formally established organisation that is (at least in part) publicly funded to deliver a public or government service, though not as a ministerial department.
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(law, politics) A person appointed by a deliberative body to investigate an issue or a situation, and report back to that body.
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(Quakerism) The member of a Quaker meeting for business that takes the minutes.
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(US, politics) To redraw the borders of the districts represented by legislators or other elected officeholders in accord with changes in population as shown in the decennial census.
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A committee set up to determine the order of business for another body, or to manage the general course of an operation
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(law) A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business entrusted to the latter.
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(informal) A subscriber.
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A lesser or subsidiary headquarters.
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(computing, informal) superadministrator
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system administration; the work of a sysadmin
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Alternative form of sysadmining [system administration; the work of a sysadmin]
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(acting) Abbreviation of understudy. [A performer who understudies; a standby.]
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Alternative letter-case form of ukase [An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or (later) emperor.]
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(government, often capitalised) A government committee formed in wartime to coordinate the war effort.
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