| development | act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining, he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency, they funded research and development |
| product development | improving an existing product or developing new kinds of products |
President of the United States
President Chief Executive | the office of the United States head of state, a President is elected every four years |
Attorney General
Attorney General of the United States | the position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, the post of Attorney General was created in |
| Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | the position of the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was created in |
| capital offense | a crime so serious that capital punishment is considered appropriate |
exploitation
development | the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful, the development of Alaskan resources, the exploitation of copper deposits |
| land development | making an area of land more useful |
water development
water project
water program | making an area of water more useful |
execution
executing
capital punishment
death penalty | putting a condemned person to death |
American Civil War
United States Civil War
War between the States | civil war in the United States between the North and the South, - |
capital
chapiter
cap | the upper part of a column that supports the entablature |
| capital ship | a warship of the first rank in size and armament |
| Great Seal of the United States | the seal of the United States government |
National Library of Medicine
United States National Library of Medicine
U.S. National Library of Medicine | the world's largest medical library |
| ribbon development | building complex in a continuous row along a road |
United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
US Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
USACIL | a defense laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Command, the United States Army's primary forensic laboratory in support of criminal intelligence |
United States Mint
U.S. Mint
US Mint | the mint that manufactures and distributes United States coins for circulation through Federal Reserve Banks, processes gold and silver bullion |
United States Constitution
U.S. Constitution
US Constitution
Constitution Constitution of the United States | the constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states |
United States Code
U. S. Code | a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States, is prepared and published by a unit of the United States House of Representatives |
capital
capital letter
uppercase
upperase letter
majuscule | one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis, printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases, capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upperase letters |
small capital
small cap | a character having the form of an upperase letter but the same height as lowerase letters |
block letter
block capital | a plain hand-drawn letter |
| development | (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated |
Das Kapital
Capital | a book written by Karl Marx () describing his economic theories |
| development | a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation, recent developments in Iraq, what a revolting development! |
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 United Front
RUF | a terrorist group formed in the s in Sierra Leone, seeks to overthrow the government and gain control of the diamond producing regions, responsible for attacks on civilians and children, widespread torture and murder and using children to commit atrocities, sponsored by the president of Liberia |
United Self-Defense Force of Colombia
United Self-Defense Group of Colombia
Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia
AUC | a terrorist organization in Colombia formed in as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups, is financed by earnings from narcotics and serves to protect the economic interests of its members, the AUC conducted over assassinations in one year |
British Commonwealth
Commonwealth of Nations | an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown |
| pension fund | a financial institution that collects regular contributions from employers to provide retirement income for employees |
investment company
investment trust
investment firm
fund | a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies |
hedge fund
hedgefund | a flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $ million), can use highisk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging |
mutual fund
mutual fund company
open-end fund
open-end investment company | a regulated investment company with a pool of assets that regularly sells and redeems its shares |
| index fund | a mutual fund that invests in the stocks that are the basis of a well-known stock or bond index |
closed-end fund
closed-end investment company | a regulated investment company that issues a fixed number of shares which are listed on a stock market |
| United Church of Christ | merger of the Congregational Christian Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church in |
| Evangelical United Brethren Church | a Methodist denomination |
| United Methodist Church | union of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church |
United States Postal Service
US Postal Service
USPS | an independent federal agency that provides mail processing and delivery service for individuals and businesses in the United States |
United States Postal Inspection Service
US Postal Inspection Service | the primary law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service |
United States Trade Representative
US Trade Representative | the executive agency that administers the President's policies on international trade |
Department of Defense
Defense Department
United States Department of Defense
Defense DoD | the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States, created in |
United States Public Health Service
PHS | an agency that serves as the office of Surgeon General, includes agencies whose mission is to improve the public health |
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Housing and Urban Development
HUD | the United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal, created in |
United States Border Patrol
US Border Patrol | the mobile law enforcement arm of the Immigration and Naturalization Service that detects and prevents illegal entry of aliens into the United States |
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 |
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
US Fish and Wildlife Service
FWS | an agency in the Department of the Interior that conserves and protects fish and wildlife and their habitats, assesses the environmental impact of pesticides and nuclear power site and hydroelectric dams and thermal pollution |
Department of the Treasury
Treasury Department
Treasury United States Treasury | the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances, the Treasury Department was created in |
United States Marshals Service
US Marshals Service
Marshals | the United States' oldest federal law enforcement agency is responsible today for protecting the Federal Judiciary and transporting federal prisoners and protecting federal witnesses and managing assets seized from criminals and generally ensuring the effective operation of the federal judicial system |