rally rallying | the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort, he singled to start a rally in the th inning, he feared the rallying of their troops for a counterattack |
party game | a game to amuse guests at a party |
Royal National Eisteddfod | an eisteddfod with competitions in music and drama and poetry and the fine arts |
national service | compulsory service in the military during peacetime |
national censorship | censorship under civil authority of communications entering or leaving of crossing the borders of the United States or its territories or possessions |
national insurance | social insurance program in Britain, based on contributions from employers and employees, provides payments to unemployed and sick and retired people as well as medical services |
supplementary benefit social assistance national assistance | benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law |
rally exchange | (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes, after a short rally Connors won the point |
Boston Tea Party | demonstration () by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor, organized as a protest against taxes on tea |
party spirit | devotion to a political party |
convention convening | the act of convening |
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations NASDAQ | a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter |
National Baseball Hall of Fame | a Hall of Fame and museum in Cooperstown, New York, honoring great baseball players |
National Library of Medicine United States National Library of Medicine U.S. National Library of Medicine | the world's largest medical library |
national monument | memorial consisting of a structure or natural landmark of historic interest, set aside by national government for preservation and public enjoyment |
party favor party favour favor favour | souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party |
party line | a telephone line serving two or more subscribers |
party wall | a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners |
conventionality convention conventionalism | orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional |
convention normal pattern rule formula | something regarded as a normative example, the convention of not naming the main character, violence is the rule not the exception, his formula for impressing visitors |
Higher National Diploma HND | a diploma given for vocational training that prepares the student for a career in a particular area, good students may progress to a course leading to a degree |
party line | the policy of a political group, He won in a vote along party lines |
trade policy national trading policy | a government's policy controlling foreign trade |
convention | (diplomacy) an international agreement |
Chemical Weapons Convention | a global treaty banning the production or acquisition or stockpiling or transfer or use of chemical weapons |
Geneva Convention | an agreement first drawn up in Geneva in and later revised concerning the treatment of captured and wounded military personnel and civilians in wartime |
national flag ensign | an emblem flown as a symbol of nationality |
national anthem | a song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation |
party | an occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment, he planned a party to celebrate Bastille Day |
birthday party | a party held on the anniversary of someone's birth |
cocktail party | an afternoon party at which cocktails are served |
house party | a party lasting over one or more nights at a large house |
tea party | a party at which tea is served |
rally | an automobile race run over public roads |
Grand National | an annual steeplechase run in Liverpool, England |
a Hizballah Hezbollah Hizbollah Hizbullah Lebanese Hizballah Party of God Islamic Jihad Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine Revolutionary Justice Organization Organization of the Oppressed on Earth | a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran, seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon, car bombs are the signature weapon |
Hizb ut-Tahrir Freedom Party | the most popular and feared Islamic extremist group in central Asia, advocates `pure' Islam and the creation of a worldwide Islamic state |
Irish National Liberation Army INLA People's Liberation Army People's Republican Army Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
Islamic Group of Uzbekistan IMU Islamic Party of Turkestan | a terrorist group of Islamic militants formed in , opposes Uzbekistan's secular regime and wants to establish an Islamic state in central Asia, is a conduit for drugs from Afghanistan to central Asian countries |
Khmer Rouge KR Party of Democratic Kampuchea Communist Party of Kampuchea | a communist organization formed in Cambodia in , became a terrorist organization in when it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people, was defeated by Vietnamese troops but remained active until |
Kurdistan Workers Party Kurdistan Labor Pary Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan PPK | a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey |
National Liberation Army ELN Nestor Paz Zamora Commission CNPZ | a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups, a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the s |
National Liberation Army ELN | a Marxist terrorist group formed in by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution, responsible for a campaign of mass kidnappings and resistance to the government's efforts to stop the drug trade, ELN kidnappers target foreign employees of large corporations |
National Liberation Front of Corsica FLNC | a terrorist group formed in to work for Corsican independence, attacks on Corsica are aimed at sabotaging public infrastructure and symbols of colonialism |
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party Revolutionary People's Liberation Front | an extreme Marxist terrorist organization in Turkey that is opposed to NATO and the United States, attacks Turkish security and military officials |
National Trust NT | an organization concerned to preserve historic monuments and buildings and places of historical interest or natural beauty, founded in and supported by endowment and private subscription |
American Baptist Convention Northern Baptist Convention | an association of Northern Baptists |
Southern Baptist Convention | an association of Southern Baptists |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA | an independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight |
National Archives and Records Administration NARA | the independent agency that oversees management of federal government records including presidential libraries and historic collections |