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(UK politics, by extension, idiomatic) The title or office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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In the American Civil War, one of the slave states that did not join the Confederacy.
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(UK) An annual report to parliament from the Secretary of State for Energy.
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A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
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An official who is part of a bureaucracy.
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Alternative spelling of comitadji [(historical) A member of a unit of irregular soldiers or resistance fighters; a partisan.]
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(historical) An official of the Communist Party, often attached to a military unit, who was responsible for political education.
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A territorial and governmental unit of Colombia at some points in its history.
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(politics, historical) A type of monarchy, common in Europe during the early modern period, in which a single ruler governed several territories as if they were separate kingdoms, each with its own local traditions and legal structures.
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(historical) The Confederate States of America, the collection of American states that seceded from the United States in 1860-61, and fought against the Union in the American Civil War.
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(historical) Of or relating to Confederate Ireland or the Irish Confederate Wars.
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(historical) An unrecognized nation existing from 1861-1865, consisting of the eleven Southern states who sought independence from the United States of America over the issue of slavery.
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In Canada, the date of Confederation; 1 July 1867.
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(historical) A member of the French National Convention.
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(US, historical, slang) A northerner who sympathized with the South or wanted to end hostilities during the American Civil War.
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(US, historical) The state of being a Copperhead; sympathy in the North for Southern secessionists during the American Civil War.
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An official or bureaucrat with substantial autonomy, especially one referred to as a "czar" or "tsar".
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(UK, politics) Full fiscal autonomy for Scotland
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The lower house of the Parliament of Ireland.
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(historical) A unionist soldier in the American Civil War.
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(chiefly US) Any of the men who were responsible for the founding of the United States of America. Chiefly used to refer to political leaders who drafted the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, and to military leaders who fought in the American Revolutionary War.
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(historical) A burgher with full freedom of a city, as opposed to nobles, outsiders, bondsmen, and others.
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(Isle of Man) The lower house of Tynwald, the Isle of Man parliament.
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(UK, politics) The House of Commons and the House of Lords within the Palace of Westminster.
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(US, dated, slang) A Confederate who moved to another country following the American Civil War, rather than live in a reunited United States.
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Alternative form of Johnny Reb [(historical, colloquial) Synonym of Confederate: a citizen of the Confederate States of America, particularly a Confederate soldier.]
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(historical, colloquial) Synonym of Confederate: a citizen of the Confederate States of America, particularly a Confederate soldier.
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(historical) A German industrial cartel.
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(US, slang, derogatory) Confederate (with implications of white supremacist leanings)
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(economics, political science) UK standard spelling of labor-value theory.
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(Britain, UK politics, plural only) Ellipsis of House of Lords. [The upper chamber of the UK's Houses of Parliament.]
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Alternative form of MP [(politics) Member of Parliament]
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Of or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
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(politics) Member of Parliament
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National Executive Committee (of a political party).
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(UK) Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
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(Canada, politics) The Canadian federal government and its houses of parliament
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(Britain) a short radio or television broadcast made by a political party
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A section of the British Houses of Parliament, the House of Lords, the House of Peers.
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(US politics) Of or pertaining to Nancy Pelosi (born 1940), American politician and speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
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(historical) The method of conducting the struggle of the Irish tenants against the landlords, organised by the National League in 1886, its officers collecting what they considered a fair rent, and offering it to the landlord, and where he refused to accept it spending it on the support of the persons evicted.
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(US, historical) Synonym of Confederate: a citizen of the Confederate States of America, especially a Confederate soldier.
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A period of the history of the United States from 1865 to 1877, during which the nation tried to resolve the status of the ex-Confederate states, the ex-Confederate leaders, and the Freedmen (ex-slaves) after the American Civil War.
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(US, informal, historical) A secessionist, a supporter of the Confederacy during the United States Civil War.
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(US, historical) Prior to the American Civil War, any of the states in which the owning of slaves was legal.
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(Ireland, informal) The requirement that approval is received from the Irish government, the Dáil (parliament), and the United Nations, prior to any overseas military action by Irish defence forces.
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(often capitalised) Support for the North (the Union) during the American Civil War.
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