n
The tendency of universities to have as many faculty members as possible be adjuncts (who receive lower pay and/or benefits, lack tenure, etc).
adj
Relating to affiliation.
adj
Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency.
adj
Of or pertaining to allocation.
n
(law) The status of being against the constitution
adj
Of or relating to arbitration.
adj
Relating or belonging to an assessor.
n
A person who attributes actions to specific causes
adj
Of or pertaining to an auction.
n
One who, or that which, authorizes.
n
A person or group that acts in an auxiliary manner.
n
(Philippines) Mutual cooperation for the public good.
n
(uncommon) An individual who budgetizes.
adj
Of business conduct in accordance with the dictum that "Markets could not flourish without a strong underlying moral culture, animated by empathy and Fellow-feeling, by our ability to understand our common bond as human beings and to recognize the needs of others."
n
The state of being capitalised.
n
(uncountable) Human society, particularly civil society.
adj
Of or pertaining to a class action.
adj
Alternative form of cooptative [Relating to the process of co-opting, or electing as a fellow member of a group.]
n
An immediate environmental benefit resulting from longer-term environmental policy.
n
A species or organism that jointly dominates a region.
adj
Relating to coemption.
adj
(economics) Relating to coemption
adj
That is involved in, or aids collaboration; collaborative
n
(countable, law, politics) the legal authority to deal with a matter.
n
A person who conciliates
n
A person who conforms; a conformist.
adj
Of or pertaining to connoisseurs.
n
(law) A clause in a law, affecting religious matters, to relieve persons of conscientious scruples, especially one to prevent their children being compelled to undergo particular religious instruction.
adj
Relating to conscription.
n
(obsolete) An imitator or disciple.
adj
having the power or authority to constitute, establish or enact something
adj
Of or relating to a contributor.
adv
In a cooperative manner; working with others on a task as part of a team.
adj
Relating to the process of co-opting, or electing as a fellow member of a group.
adj
By right; in accordance with or as deemed by the statute of the law; legally. Particularly as opposed to actual practice in reality.
n
(law) An absolute unconditional accruement of a claim's validity and legitimacy.
n
An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
adj
Of or pertaining to distribution
adj
Pertaining to an emissary or the functions of an emissary.
n
(linguistics) A term that conveys familiarity.
n
(countable) A specific requirement for obtaining a legal status, conducting a transaction, etc.
n
(military) Dominance of the battlespace to permit conduct of joint operations with neither effective counterattack nor resistance.
n
A profession that nurtures the growth of or addresses the problems of a person's physical, psychological, intellectual, emotional or spiritual well-being, including medicine, nursing, psychotherapy, psychological counseling, social work, education, life coaching and ministry.
adj
Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.
adv
(law) A canon of construction holding that the meaning of an ambiguous law can be determined in light of other statutes on the same subject matter.
n
(uncountable, especially linguistics, biology) The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited
adj
Of or pertaining to installation.
adj
Arising from the practice of an institution.
n
(law) the sense in which the legal system interprets something, especially the intention of legislation
adj
Of or pertaining to jurisprudence
adj
Having its basis in the law.
n
A particular state of the rights in consequence of a defined state or course of things.
n
The principles or plans of legitimists.
adj
Relating to, or causing, liberation; freeing.
v
(transitive, education, chiefly US) To educate (a disabled student) together with non-disabled students.
n
General public awareness of ideas and topics.
n
A decision that gains the acceptance of the majority of voters in a decision-making body, such as a parliament, municipal council or shareholders' meeting.
adj
Of or pertaining to mancipation.
adj
Indicates the quality of being a command, or being related to the command.
adj
Of or relating to manumission.
n
(education) A teaching philosophy stating that students must achieve a level of mastery in each topic (e.g. 90% in a test) before moving on to further topics.
n
Control over the market for a product which occurs when a firm gains large benefit from economies of scale, or from a superior business model or product, and is thus able to produce a very large percentage of the total market demand for a given product and unintentionally exclude meaningful competition via price structures.
n
(politics) Peace efforts and treaties between the Arab League and Israel. See Arab–Israeli normalization.
n
(law) The phenomenon that legal rules are a function of language and are thus subject to attempts at definition of vague or interpretative terms.
adj
Of or relating to this assistance.
n
Synonym of participation; the process of act of participating; involvement.
adj
Of or pertaining to participation.
adj
Relating to participation.
n
(idiomatic) One who interacts skilfully with other people and who receives satisfaction from such interaction.
n
Alternative form of people person [(idiomatic) One who interacts skilfully with other people and who receives satisfaction from such interaction.]
n
A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body.
n
Alternative form of pratique [(nautical) Permission to use a port given to a ship after compliance with quarantine or on conviction that she is free of contagious disease.]
adj
(chiefly US) acting (of a job or role), serving temporarily
n
The belief that measurable economic productivity is the purpose of human organization.
adj
Serving to protect; protective.
n
(law) A standard for judicial review, according to which a law must be rationally related to a legitimate state interest.
n
An international humanitarian organization that cares for the wounded, sick, and homeless.
adj
Of, or relating to something that causes a revelation in oneself, or any given situation.
n
The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
adj
Relating to salutation.
n
(social sciences, literary theory) The condition of being a subaltern.
n
An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.
n
(law) A statutory provision that regulates a process that starts before an amendment or enactment of the statute comes into force, and ends after the amendment or enactment of the statute has come into force.
n
A person to whom citizenship is denied, or from whom it is revoked.
n
(obsolete) Agreement of name and meaning.
n
(neologism) A skilled volunteer working at a professional level.
adj
Pertaining to voluntary activity; supporting or promoting voluntarism.
adj
Of or relating to voluntarism.
adj
Of or related to volunteerism; done on a volunteer basis.
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