soccer
association football | a football game in which two teams of players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal |
| association | the act of consorting with or joining with others, you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association |
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
NASDAQ | a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter |
| freedom of thought | the right to hold unpopular ideas |
| freedom of religion | a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution |
| freedom of speech | a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution |
| freedom of the press | a right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution |
| freedom of assembly | the right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution |
| freedom to bear arms | a right guaranteed by the nd amendment to the US Constitution |
| freedom from search and seizure | a right guaranteed by the th amendment to the US Constitution |
freedom from self-incrimination
privilege against self incrimination | the civil right (guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution) to refuse to answer questions or otherwise give testimony against yourself |
| freedom from double jeopardy | a civil right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution |
| freedom from cruel and unusual punishment | a right guaranteed by the th amendment to the US Constitution |
| freedom from involuntary servitude | a civil right guaranteed by the th amendment to the US Constitution |
| freedom from discrimination | immunity from discrimination on the basis of race or sex or nationality or religion or age, guaranteed by federal laws of the United States |
association area
association cortex | cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information |
association
connection
connexion | the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination, conditioning is a form of learning by association |
| free association | a thought process in which ideas (words or images) suggest other ideas in a sequence |
| degree of freedom | (statistics) an unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution |
| degree of freedom | one of the minimum number of parameters needed to describe the state of a physical system |
associationism
association theory | (psychology) a theory that association is the basic principle of mental activity |
| association | (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species |
Basque Homeland and Freedom
Basque Fatherland and Liberty
Euskadi ta Askatasuna
ETA | a terrorist organization organized in by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party, want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees, in ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials |
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 |
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 |
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
LTTE
Tamil Tigers
Tigers
World Tamil Association
World Tamil Movement | a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began inas a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students, currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam, relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel, the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war |
Orange Order
Association of Orangemen | a Protestant political organization in Northern Ireland |
Ulster Defence Association
UDA | the major Protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, responsible for bombing the homes of Catholics and for criminal racketeering and selling drugs |
| association | a formal organization of people or groups of people, he joined the Modern Language Association |
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
National Volunteers Association | an all-male organization begun in to foster nationalism in India's Hindus |
Lions Club
International Association of Lions clubs | club dedicated to promoting responsible citizenship and good government and community and national and international welfare |
| professional association | an association of practitioners of a given profession |
International Development Association
IDA | an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank |
news agency
press agency
wire service
press association
news organization
news organisation | an agency to collects news reports for newspapers and distributes it electronically |
National Rifle Association
NRA | a powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government |
Federal National Mortgage Association
Fannie Mae
FNMA | a federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages |
savings and loan
savings and loan association | a thrift institution that is required by law to make a certain percentage of its loans as home mortgages |
Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons
AARP | an association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens |
| National Association of Realtors | a United States association of real estate agents which follows a strict code of ethics |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASEAN | an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism |
| freedom rider | one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation |
insurgent
insurrectionist
freedom fighter
rebel | a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) |
| association | (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding |
| association | a relation resulting from interaction or dependence, flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear, the host is not always injured by association with a parasite |
affiliation
association
tie tie-up | a social or business relationship, a valuable financial affiliation, he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team, many close associations with England |
| guilt by association | the attribution of guilt (without proof) to individuals because the people they associate with are guilty |
| freedom | the condition of being free, the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints |
| academic freedom | the freedom of teachers and students to express their ideas in school without religious or political or institutional restrictions |
| freedom of the seas | the right of merchant ships to travel freely in international waters |
| association | the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination, his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break |