n
(rare) The state of being an accomplice.
n
(rare) The act or state of being an accomplice.
adj
(of behaviour) tending to promote social cohesion
adj
(obsolete) Authoritative.
n
The quality of trustworthiness and reliability.
adj
(linguistics) Aspectually indicating that the agent of an action is its benefactor.
adj
(linguistics) Of or pertaining to the linguistic form or case or the semantic role of the beneficiary of an action. Expressed in English as "on behalf of" or "on one's behalf."
n
(grammar) A case used to indicate beneficiary, or the receiver of the benefit. It corresponds roughly to the English prepositions for, for the benefit of, in the interests of, intended for, and on behalf of.
adj
beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil
n
(US, politics) A theory concerning observed discrepancies between opinion polls and election outcomes, according to which some white voters who intend to vote for a white candidate may tell pollsters that they are undecided or likely to vote for a non-white candidate, for fear of being accused of racism.
adj
favoring or conducive to business concerns or interests
n
Self-interest; private advantage.
n
An approach to career-related decision-making, combining rationality, interactions with others, and responses to sometimes unpredictable events.
n
The state or quality of being civic-minded; social conscience.
n
The quality of being civilized.
v
(obsolete) To participate.
n
(idiomatic) A characteristic or interest shared by multiple people or systems; any belief, etc. held in common.
adj
Of, relating to, or being a concession; concessionary
n
A policy of conciliation.
n
The set of things considered to be real according to the majority of individuals.
v
(transitive) To discipline; to punish.
adj
(obsolete) Familiar, known; well-known, renowned.
adj
Conformable to the will of God
n
The act of dignifying; exaltation.
n
(philosophy, natural science) The being or event which physically brings about the change or motion that produces another occurrence or thing.
n
(law) a rule of intellectual property law, such as in the United Kingdom, that permits one party to make use of another party's copyright-protected work under narrowly defined circumstances.
adj
(obsolete) Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere.
n
An instance of familiar behaviour.
n
The state or condition of being illegitimate
n
(obsolete) The state of being illegitimate; illegitimacy.
n
The quality of being inauthoritative.
n
The state of being an interpreter
n
A force or law of nature which causes one to reap what one sows; destiny; fate.
n
Property of being lawful, of obeying the law.
n
The state of being legal, or within the law.
adj
(informal) Legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules; valid.
n
The quality or state of being legitimate or valid; validity.
v
(transitive) To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.
n
The quality of being legitimate.
n
(religious) The legitimacy of an act or its consequences, by opposition to the validity.
n
Alternative spelling of legitime [(law) That portion of a parent's estate of which he cannot disinherit his children without a legal cause.]
n
(of a person, institution, or written work) The quality or characteristic of being respected for having good character or knowledge, especially as a source of guidance or an exemplar of proper conduct.
n
A conviction so justifiable that one is morally entitled to act on it.
adj
Relating to a moratorium.
n
(Scotland, law) The legal state of affairs resulting from being done or given in return for receipt of something of value.
adj
(Used with “with”) So acquainted with something, that one doesn't notice it, or is annoyed by it.
adj
Positive in opinion or judgment; absolutely certain, overconfident, unwilling to hear any debate or argument (especially in a pejorative sense); dogmatic.
n
(law) The right of an attorney to reject potential jurors without stating a reason.
n
(psychology) The strong preference for an almost immediate reward rather than a better reward in the future
adv
so as to be generally favored or accepted by the people
n
(economics) A good valued only by how it is distributed among a population and whose value comes solely from its desirability as a status symbol.
n
One who is working towards becoming a professional.
adj
Of or relating to pretense or pretension; pretended.
adv
In a proprietary way; with an air of ownership.
n
(by extension) An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group.
n
Alternative form of raison d'état [A state interest, especially when invoked as politically superior to moral or even legal considerations.]
adj
(economics) Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.
n
(law, obsolete) Realty; real estate.
n
(law) A fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society and how he or she would behave or think, especially in determining negligence; sometimes formulated as "a person of ordinary prudence exercising due care in like circumstances."
n
(law) An act of redressing or preventing a wrong by one's own actions rather than through legal proceedings.
n
A skill for dealing with people and society.
adj
Describing a crime or offence regulated by statute; legally punishable.
n
The process of subordinating.
adj
Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.
n
State of having legal force.
adj
Of or relating to values or valuation; not factual or descriptive.
n
(philosophy) A judgment of the rightness or wrongness of something, based on a particular set of values or on a particular value system.
n
(business) An organisation's statement of its ethical values, complementary to mission statement and vision statement.
n
The tendency to volunteer; the activity of volunteering.
n
(Nietzschean philosophy) The will to power.
n
One who wills; who causes by an act of will or willpower.
adv
Obsolete spelling of economically [(manner) In an economical manner; not wastefully; not extravagantly]
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