| armed forces censorship | military censorship of personal communications to or from persons in the armed forces |
North American Free Trade Agreement
NAFTA | an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico, became effective in for ten years |
agreement
correspondence | compatibility of observations, there was no agreement between theory and measurement, the results of two tests were in correspondence |
power hunger
status seeking | a drive to acquire power |
agreement
arrangement | the thing arranged or agreed to, they made arrangements to meet in Chicago |
purchase contract
purchase agreement | a contract stating the terms of a purchase |
| 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 |
articles of agreement
shipping articles | a contract between crew and captain of a ship |
labor contract
labor agreement
collective agreement | contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions |
employment contract
employment agreement | contract between employer and employee |
| distribution agreement | a contract governing the marketing of an item of merchandise |
| licensing agreement | contract giving someone the legal right to use a patent or trademark |
merger agreement
acquisition agreement | contract governing the merger of two or more companies |
sale
sales agreement | an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer), the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office |
| agreement understanding | the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises, they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business, there was an understanding between management and the workers |
| working agreement | an informal agreement to work together |
| gentlemen's agreement | a personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding |
| written agreement | a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties |
| agreement | the verbal act of agreeing |
| severance agreement | an agreement on the terms on which an employee will leave |
Army for the Liberation of Rwanda
ALIR
Former Armed Forces
FAR
Interahamwe | a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again, in ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists |
Forces of Umar Al-Mukhtar
Umar al-Mukhtar Forces | a little known Palestinian group responsible for bombings and for killing Israelis, seeks to defeat Israel and liberate southern Lebanon, Palestine, and Golan Heights |
Lautaro Youth Movement
Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement
Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces | a violent terrorist group organized in the s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government, leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths |
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia
FARC | a powerful and wealthy terrorist organization formed in as the guerilla arm of the Colombian communist party, opposed to the United States, has strong ties to drug dealers |
army
regular army
ground forces | a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state |
navy
naval forces | an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare |
military
armed forces
armed services
military machine
war machine | the military forces of a nation, their military is the largest in the region, the military machine is the same one we faced in but now it is weaker |
Special Forces
U. S. Army Special Forces
United States Army Special Forces | a division of the United States Army that is specially trained for guerilla fighting |
| Commission on the Status of Women | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with the status of women in different societies |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GATT | a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas |
| van der Waal's forces | relatively weak attraction between neutral atoms and molecules arising from polarization induced in each particle by the presence of other particles |
| market forces | the interaction of supply and demand that shapes a market economy |
| agreement concord | the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations |
| number agreement | agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify) |
| person agreement | agreement in person between pronouns and verbs |
| case agreement | agreement in grammatical case between words in the same construction |
| gender agreement | agreement in grammatical gender between words in the same construction |
condition
status | a state at a particular time, a condition (or state) of disrepair, the current status of the arms negotiations |
| status quo | the existing state of affairs |
status
position | the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society, he had the status of a minor, the novel attained the status of a classic, atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life |
social station
social status
social rank
rank | position in a social hierarchy, the British are more aware of social status than Americans are |
| high status | a position of superior status |
seniority
senior status
higher status
higher rank | higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service |
low status
lowness
lowliness | a position of inferior status, low in station or rank or fortune or estimation |
inferiority
lower status
lower rank | the state of being inferior |
| junior status | in a junior position |
| legal status | a status defined by law |
| marital status | the condition of being married or unmarried |
| agreement accord | harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters, the two parties were in agreement |
| status epilepticus | a condition in which there are continuing attacks of epilepsy without intervals of consciousness, can lead to brain damage and death |