| fair ball | (baseball) a ball struck with the bat so that it stays between the lines (the foul lines) that define the width of the playing field |
| fair catch | (American football) a catch of a punt on the fly by a defensive player who has signalled that he will not run and so should not be tackled |
| carnival fair funfair | a traveling show, having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. |
| foreign direct investment | a joint venture between a foreign company and a United States company |
| fair trade | trade that is conducted legally |
| fair trade | trade that satisfies certain criteria on the supply chain of the goods involved, usually including fair payment for producers, often with other social and environmental considerations |
| foreign direct investment | investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business) |
bazaar
fair | a sale of miscellany, often for charity, the church bazaar |
book fair
bookfair | bazaar at which books are sold or auctioned off in order to raise funds for a worthy cause |
| craft fair | a fair at which objects made by craftsmen are offered for sale |
| fair hearing | a hearing that is granted in extraordinary situations where the normal judicial process would be inadequate to secure due process because the person would be harmed or denied their rights before a judicial remedy became available (as in deportation or loss of welfare benefits) |
| vanity fair | a vain and frivolous lifestyle especially in large cities |
fair chance
sporting chance | a reasonable probability of success |
| fair use | the conditions under which you can use material that is copyrighted by someone else without paying royalties |
fairness
fair-mindedness
candor
candour | ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty |
| fair copy | a clean copy of a corrected draft |
| fair-trade agreement | an agreement (illegal in the United States) between the manufacturer of a trademarked item of merchandise and its retail distributors to sell the item at a price at or above the price set by the manufacturer |
| fair-trade act | formerly a state law that protected manufacturers from priceutting by allowing them to set minimum retail prices for their merchandise, eliminated by the United States Congress in |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
FISA | an act passed by Congress in to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, intended to increase United States counterintelligence, separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance |
| foreign policy | a policy governing international relations |
fair deal
square deal | fair treatment |
| Foreign Office | the government department in charge of foreign relations |
French Foreign Office
Quai d'Orsay | the French department in charge of foreign affairs, referred to familiarly by its address in Paris |
| Foreign Service | the part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world |
| foreign country | any state of which one is not a citizen, working in a foreign country takes a bit of getting used to |
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW | an organization of United States war veterans |
| foreign legion | a military unit composed of foreign volunteers who serve the state |
| French Foreign Legion | a former foreign legion in the French army that was used for military duties outside of France |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
F.I.S.C. | a secret federal court created in by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies |
Foreign Intelligence Service
Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki
SVR | Russia's intelligence service responsible for foreign operations, intelligence-gathering and analysis, and the exchange of intelligence information, collaborates with other countries to oppose proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and organized crime |
terrorist organization
terrorist group
foreign terrorist organization
FTO | a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals |
legation
foreign mission | a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister |
mission missionary post
missionary station
foreign mission | an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work |
| fair | a competitive exhibition of farm products, she won a blue ribbon for her baking at the county fair |
book fair
bookfair | fair organized by publishers or booksellers to promote the sale of books |
| fair | gathering of producers to promote business, world fair, trade fair, book fair |
womanhood
woman
fair sex | women as a class, it's an insult to American womanhood, woman is the glory of creation, the fair sex gathered on the veranda |
| foreign agent | a spy for a foreign country |
| foreign correspondent | a journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a foreign country for publication or broadcast |
foreign minister
secretary of state | a government minister for foreign relations |
prey
quarry
target
fair game | a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence, he fell prey to muggers, everyone was fair game, the target of a manhunt |
fair weather
sunshine temperateness | moderate weather, suitable for outdoor activities |
meadow saxifrage
fair-maids-of-France
Saxifraga granulata | rosette-forming perennial having compact panicles of white flowers, Europe |
| foreign aid | aid (such as economic or military assistance) provided to one nation by another |
foreign bill
foreign draft | a bill of exchange that is drawn in one country and made payable in another |
| foreign exchange | the system by which one currency is exchanged for another, enables international transactions to take place |
| fair | join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly |
bonny
bonnie
comely
fair
sightly | very pleasing to the eye, my bonny lass, there's a bonny bay beyond, a comely face, young fair maidens |
fair
fairish | (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored, a fair complexion, |
| fair | free of clouds or rain, today will be fair and warm |