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(US, politics) A nominally civic oriented service non-profit organization, that spends just over 50% of its revenues on such apparent aims, while spending the remainder on political purposes; due to the effect of the Citizens United judgment.
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Any branch of learning taken up as a means of earning a living.
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Someone who has the same opinion.
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Alternative form of coteach. [To teach pupils with special educational needs alongside those without.]
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Alternative form of coteacher [A teacher that one works alongside.]
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(Oxford University, usually in the plural) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
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A contract specifying terms and conditions of employment between one or more labour unions and employers' associations legally binding for employers organized in these and the employees if they are unionized in them or their employment contract incorporates them by referral.
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(law) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
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(US, law) A state in which a company is allowed to continue trading without incurring any new financial liabilities or disposing of any assets.
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(collective) The voters of a candidate.
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The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
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A representative of a group or class of people within an organizational system.
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(management) Accountability for consistent, cohesive policies, processes and decision rights.
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An organization founded to promote a cause
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(informal) Any long established and respected place or business.
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The systems of formal laws, regulations, and procedures, and informal conventions, customs, and norms, that shape socioeconomic activity and behaviour.
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Having been established as an institution.
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Relating to an institution or institutions.
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Established; depending on, or characterized by, institution or order.
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Intended for purposes of instruction, for teaching.
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(dated) Instruction; curriculum.
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The successful side of an election in which victory is not based on numerical majority but where greater weight has been given to the votes of some electors based on their authority, intellectual prowess, moral standing, purity of intent, and fairness of judgment.
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(law) The creation of a municipality by the enactment of a governing document.
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(medicine, chiefly US) A doctor who gives practical training to medical students, nurses etc.
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The official formulas which appeared at the beginning or end of certain official documents such as charters, papal bulls etc.
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A person or group that sets standards of practice, especially those established by law.
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Pertaining to a sponsor.
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(obsolete) Establishment
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Of or pertaining to a stipend.
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One institution upon another, as when A is instituted and admitted to a benefice upon a title, and B instituted and admitted upon the presentation of another.
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A person, organization, publication, etc. regarded as an authoritative source of new ideas or intellectual trends.
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(formal, historical) Synonym of Warsaw Pact
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(Quakerism) The form of consensus in a Quaker meeting for business which signals that a decision has been reached. In order to achieve unity, everyone who does not agree with the decision must explicitly stand aside, possibly being recorded in the minutes as doing so.
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