| community service | an unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence |
| community service public service | a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions |
nurse shark
Ginglymostoma cirratum | small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia |
community center
civic center | a center where the members of a community can gather for social or cultural activities |
| community biotic community | (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other |
Jemaah Islamiyah
JI
Islamic Group Islamic Community
Malaysian Mujahidin Group
Malaysia Militant Group | a clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in and trained by al-Qaeda, supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia |
| community chest | a charity supported by individual subscriptions, defrays the demands on a community for social welfare |
legal profession
bar
legal community | the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction, he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey |
medical profession
medical community | the body of individuals who are qualified to practice medicine |
businessmen
business community | the body of individuals who manage businesses |
| community of scholars | the body of individuals holding advanced academic degrees |
European Union
EU
European Community
EC
European Economic Community
EEC
Common Market
Europe | an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members, he tried to take Britain into the Europen Union |
| community | a group of people living in a particular local area, the team is drawn from all parts of the community |
| community | a group of nations having common interests, they hoped to join the NATO community |
| speech community | people sharing a given language or dialect |
| community college | a nonresidential junior college offering a curriculum fitted to the needs of the community |
Intelligence Community
National Intelligence Community
United States Intelligence Community
IC | a group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States government, headed by the Director of Central Intelligence |
administrative district
administrative division
territorial division | a district defined for administrative purposes |
borderland
border district
march
marchland | district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area, the Welsh marches between England and Wales |
| district line | the boundary between two districts |
| city district | a district of a town or city |
voting precinct
election district | one of several districts into which a city or town is divided for voting, each contains one polling place |
business district
downtown | the central area or commercial center of a town or city, the heart of Birmingham's downtown |
| congressional district | a territorial division of a state, entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives |
district
territory
territorial dominion
dominion | a region marked off for administrative or other purposes |
| federal district | a district set apart as the seat of government of a federation |
residential district
residential area
community | a district where people live, occupied primarily by private residences |
| planned community | a residential district that is planned for a certain class of residents |
retirement community
retirement complex | a planned community for residents who have retired from an active working life |
| red-light district | a district with many brothels |
| bedroom community | a community where many commuters live |
| tenement district | a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses |
| school district | a district whose public schools are administered together |
Lake District
Lakeland | a popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain |
District of Columbia
D.C.
DC | the district occupied entirely by the city of Washington, chosen by George Washington as the site of the capital of the United States and created out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia |
continental slope
bathyal zone
bathyal district | the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone |
district attorney
DA | an official prosecutor for a judicial district |
| district manager | a manager who supervises the sales activity for a district |
| dry nurse | a nurse who cares for but does not suckle an infant |
| foster-nurse | a nurse who raises another woman's child as her own |
graduate nurse
trained nurse | someone who has completed the course of study (including hospital practice) at a nurses training school |
| head nurse | the person in charge of nursing in a medical institution |
licensed practical nurse
LPN
practical nurse | a nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick |
nanny
nursemaid
nurse | a woman who is the custodian of children |
| nurse | one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician) |
nursing aide
nurse's aide | someone who assists a nurse in tasks that require little formal training |
| nurse-midwife | a registered nurse who has received special training as a midwife |
nurse practitioner
NP
nurse clinician | a registered nurse who has received special training and can perform many of the duties of a physician |
| probationer student nurse | a nurse in training who is undergoing a trial period |
registered nurse
RN | a graduate nurse who has passed examinations for registration |