| state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes, the current state of knowledge, his state of health, in a weak financial state |
| secret ballot | a vote in which each person's choice is secret but the totaled votes are public |
| change of state | the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics |
| Secretary of State | the position of the head of the State Department, the position of Secretary of State was established in |
cryptography
coding
secret writing
steganography | act of writing in code or cipher |
police work
police investigation | the investigation of criminal activities |
| state-sponsored terrorism | terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism |
| police action | a local military action without declaration of war, against violators of international peace and order |
German shepherd
German shepherd dog
German police dog
alsatian | breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind |
| police dog | any dog trained to assist police especially in tracking |
| chair of state | a ceremonial chair for an exalted or powerful person |
cruiser police cruiser
patrol car
police car
prowl car
squad car | a car in which policemen cruise the streets, equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters |
| Empire State Building | a skyscraper built in New York City in ,feet tall |
expressway
freeway
motorway
pike state highway
superhighway
throughway
thruway | a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic |
| Ohio State University | a university in Columbus, Ohio |
| police boat | a boat used by harbor police |
police station
police headquarters
station house | a station that serves as headquarters for police in a particular district, serves as a place from which policemen are dispatched and to which arrested persons are brought |
police van
police wagon
paddy wagon
patrol wagon
wagon black Maria | van used by police to transport prisoners |
| state prison | a prison maintained by a state of the U.S. |
cognitive state
state of mind | the state of a person's cognitive processes |
religious trance
ecstatic state | a trance induced by intense religious devotion, does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances |
mystery
enigma
secret
closed book | something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained, how it got out is a mystery, it remains one of nature's secrets |
steady state theory
continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
plot
secret plan
game | a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal), they concocted a plot to discredit the governor, I saw through his little game from the start |
| solid-state physics | the branch of physics that studies the properties of materials in the solid state: electrical conduction in crystals of semiconductors and metals, superconductivity, photoconductivity |
cryptogram
cryptograph secret writing | a piece of writing in code or cipher |
cipher
cypher
cryptograph secret code | a secret method of writing |
blotter
day book
police blotter
rap sheet
charge sheet | the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station |
| secret arcanum | information known only to a special group, the secret of Cajun cooking |
| secret | something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on), the combination to the safe was a secret, he tried to keep his drinking a secret |
| open secret | something that is supposed to be secret but is generally known, their love affair was an open secret |
| trade secret | a secret (method or device or formula) that gives a manufacturer an advantage over the competition |
connivance secret approval
tacit consent | (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing |
| state's evidence | evidence for the prosecution in criminal proceedings |
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
ASALA
Orly Group
rd October Organization | a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in , wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia, ASALA bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in killed and wounded people |
Kaplan Group
Association of Islamic Groups and Communities
Caliphate State | a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany, seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran |
authoritarian state
authoritarian regime | a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people |
police squad
squad | a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime |
| police department | the department of local government concerned with enforcing the law and preventing crime |
| State Department | a department of government in one of thestates |
Department of State
United States Department of State
State Department
State DoS | the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies, the Department of State was created in |
state
nation
country
land
commonwealth
res publica
body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government, the state has elected a new president, African nations, students who had come to the nation's capitol, the country's largest manufacturer, an industrialized land |
rogue state
renegade state
rogue nation | a state that does not respect other states in its international actions |
| church-state | a state ruled by religious authority |
city state
city-state | a state consisting of a sovereign city |
| welfare state | a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc. |
puppet government
puppet state
pupet regime | a government that is appointed by and whose affairs are directed by an outside authority that may impose hardships on those governed |
| state | the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state, the state has lowered its income tax |
police
police force
constabulary
law | the force of policemen and officers, the law came looking for him |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RCMP
Mounties | the federal police force of Canada |