Concept cluster: Social systems > Public Administration
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An instance of a certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the American College Test.
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(countable, informal, computing) A systems administrator (one who maintains a computer system or network).
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(law) Abbreviation of amendment. [An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.]
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Abbreviation of attorney. [(US) A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.]
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(economics) Ellipsis of ease of doing business index.. [(economics) An index created by the World Bank, where higher rankings indicate better, usually simpler regulations for businesses and stronger protections of property rights.]
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Abbreviation of change. [(countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.]
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(law) Abbreviation of community. [(countable) A group sharing a common understanding, and often the same language, law, manners, and/or tradition.]
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(law) Abbreviation of coalition. [A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.]
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Abbreviation of commissioner. [A member of a commission.]
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(law) Abbreviation of criminal. [A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.]
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Abbreviation of control. [(countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.]
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Abbreviation of detective. [(law enforcement) A police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator.]
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(law) Abbreviation of director. [One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director).]
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(law) Abbreviation of district. [An administrative division of an area.]
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Abbreviation of district attorney. [(US) The title of the local public official who represents the government in the prosecution of alleged criminals.]
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debit
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(Britain, Ireland) a driver's licence; an official identification document which states the recipient may drive a motorised vehicle.
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(law) Abbreviation of economy. [(obsolete) The regular operation of nature in the generation, nutrition and preservation of animals or plants.]
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Alternative spelling of editor in chief [The highest ranking editor on an editorial staff.]
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Abbreviation of Exodus. [The departure of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt under the leadership of Moses.]
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(law) Abbreviation of gender. [(obsolete) Class; kind.]
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Abbreviation of group. [A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.]
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(law) Abbreviation of group. [A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.]
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(law) Abbreviation of independent. [A candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a freethinker, free of a party platform.]
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(law) Abbreviation of institution. [A custom or practice of a society or community.]
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Abbreviation of legal. [Relating to the law or to lawyers.]
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Abbreviation of library science. [An interdisciplinary science incorporating the humanities, law and applied science to study topics related to libraries, the collection, organization, preservation and dissemination of information resources, and the political economy of information.]
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Abbreviation of licentiate. [A person who holds the academic degree of license.]
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Abbreviation of literature. [The body of all written works.]
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(law) Abbreviation of magistrate. [(law) A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both.]
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(law) Abbreviation of maintenance. [Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.]
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Abbreviation of manufacturing. [The transformation of raw materials into finished products, usually on a large scale.]
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(law) Abbreviation of material. [Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.]
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(law) Abbreviation of merchant. [A person who traffics in commodities for profit.]
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(law) Abbreviation of manufacturer. [A person or company that manufactures.]
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Abbreviation of management. [(uncountable) Administration; the use of limited resources combined with forecasting, planning, leadership and execution skills to achieve predetermined specific goals.]
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(law) Abbreviation of management. [(uncountable) Administration; the use of limited resources combined with forecasting, planning, leadership and execution skills to achieve predetermined specific goals.]
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(management) Abbreviation of management. [(uncountable) Administration; the use of limited resources combined with forecasting, planning, leadership and execution skills to achieve predetermined specific goals.]
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(law) Abbreviation of market. [A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.]
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(law) Abbreviation of marketing. [(up to the 1920s, archaic) Shopping, going to market as a buyer.]
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Abbreviation of management. [(uncountable) Administration; the use of limited resources combined with forecasting, planning, leadership and execution skills to achieve predetermined specific goals.]
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(law) Abbreviation of municipal. [(finance) A financial instrument issued by a municipality.]
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(abbreviation) A detective.
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Abbreviation of organization chart. [(management) A graphic display of reporting relationships in an organization, sometimes displaying position titles and position holders.]
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(law) Abbreviation of organizing. [The act or process by which something is organized.]
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(law) Abbreviation of personnel. [Collection of people in an organization, such as employees and office staff, members of the military, etc.]
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Abbreviation of police constable.
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(lexicography) Abbreviation of Provençal (the language). [The language spoken in Provence; Occitan.]
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Abbreviation of province. [A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country.]
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(law) Abbreviation of service. [An act of being of assistance to someone.]
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Abbreviation of social. [Being extroverted or outgoing.]
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(informal) Abbreviation of sovereign citizen. [A member of a loose movement of Americans, Canadians and Australians who consider themselves answerable only to their own particular interpretation of the common law, and not subject to any government statutes or proceedings.]
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Abbreviation of supreme. [Dominant, having power over all others.]
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(law) Abbreviation of system. [(derogatory) Preceded by the word the: the mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual.]
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Abbreviation of system. [(derogatory) Preceded by the word the: the mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual.]
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Speculative financial investments, using simple financial leverage as well as financial engineering, in Japanese financial markets since their deregulation in 1984.

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