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(n)
(uncountable) Employment.
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A series of events leading to a result or product.
(uncountable) The act or process of operating (verb): agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
(v)
(transitive) To stand or act in the place of; to perform the duties, exercise the rights, or otherwise act on behalf of
(law) The act of making (a bill) into law.
(intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
(intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
Alternative form of play-act. [(intransitive) To perform on stage; to act in a play.]
To make a non-linear physical movement.
(mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
(auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
(intransitive or with 'that' clause or 'to' infinitive) To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
(intransitive) To act out a scenario or fantasy with another person or other people.
(transitive) To disguise or conceal something.
(intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
function as or act like
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
(N)
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics is a work by the Austrian economist and philosopher Ludwig von Mises.
something that people do or cause to happen
A country in North America. Capital: Ottawa. Largest city: Toronto.
(adj)
Of, belonging to, or relating to Canada, its culture, or people.
Initialism of Lao People's Army.
A country located primarily in Western Europe. Official name: French Republic. Capital and largest city: Paris.
A mountain in Iceland.
The capital and largest city of Bashkortostan, Russia.
A surname.
(agriculture) Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing.
(Greek mythology) The goddess and personification of force.
British, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada standard spelling of offense.
Initialism of Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.
(marketing) Initialism of call to action. [An appeal for action.]
Initialism of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
(British, finance) Abbreviation of Financial Conduct Authority.
Initialism of automatic fire alarm.
The letter ف in the Arabic script.
A female given name from Ancient Greek of biblical origin.
(physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
(intransitive, rare) To take part in a parent-teacher association.
(Australian politics, informal) The Australian Labor Party.
(informal, ambitransitive) To represent; to act as a representative for.
(UK, Ireland, slang) A legend; colloquially used to describe a person who is held in high regard.
A female given name.
Pertaining to the national government level in a federal nation, as opposed to state, provincial, county, city, or town.
(government) A politician who heads a ministry
Notice or awareness.
(with "the") Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.
(religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:
A law which has been enacted by legislature or other governing body.
Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking.
(US) A local law, passed by e.g. a city.
(biology, paleontology, countable) Initialism of last common ancestor. [Synonym of cenancestor.]
(uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
(informal) An officer of the law: a law-enforcement officer.
Created through legislation.
To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity.
(uncountable) The buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
A written law or ordinance passed by a legislative body.
Of, relating to, enacted or regulated by a statute.
(geology) The lower layer of the earth's outer crust that underlies the sial and is rich in silica, iron, and magnesium.
Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
The illegal trade or exchange of goods.
(countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
A religious custom.
The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek.
(physics) A unit of electrical power, in an AC circuit, equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
To bring about; to put into practice; to carry out.
Relating to the law or to lawyers.
A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
The official notes kept during a meeting.
An edict or law.
A regulation, law, guideline.
(British spelling) Of or pertaining to behaviour.
British standard spelling of behavior.
A proclamation of law or other authoritative command.
A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
(often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
(uncountable) Power or right to make or enforce rules, give orders, or impose obligation; or a position having such power or right.
A symbol or annotation.
An item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use.
A particular method for performing a task.
(countable) A command.
To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
(countable, law) A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.