attainder
civil death | cancellation of civil rights |
constitution
establishment
formation organization organisation | the act of forming or establishing something, the constitution of a PTA group last year, it was the establishment of his reputation, he still remembers the organization of the club |
re-formation
regeneration | forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects), renewing and reconstituting |
tort
civil wrong | (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought |
| civil censorship | military censorship of civilian communications (correspondence or printed matter of films) entering or leaving of circulating within territories controlled by armed forces |
formation
shaping | the act of fabricating something in a particular shape |
| formation | creation by mental activity, the formation of sentences, the formation of memories |
| civil defense | activities organized by civilians for their own protection in time of war or disaster |
| civil war | a war between factions in the same country |
| civil marriage | a marriage performed by a government official rather than by a clergyman |
| civil disobedience | a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination), Thoreau wrote a famous essay justifying civil disobedience |
| civil contempt | a failure to follow a court order that benefits someone else |
| civil suit | a lawsuit alleging violations of civil law by the defendant |
| civil action | legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy (as distinguished from criminal prosecution) |
American Civil War
United States Civil War
War between the States | civil war in the United States between the North and the South, - |
| English Civil War | civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I, - |
| Spanish Civil War | civil war in Spain in which Franco succeeded in overthrowing the republican government, during the war Spain became a battleground for fascists and socialists from all countries, - |
| formation | a particular spatial arrangement |
| civil right | right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the th and th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality |
| civil liberty | fundamental individual right protected by law and expressed as immunity from unwarranted governmental interference |
reticular formation
RF | a complex neural network in the central core of the brainstem, monitors the state of the body and functions in such processes as arousal and sleep and attention and muscle tone |
| civil engineering | the branch of engineering concerned with the design and construction of such public works as dams or bridges |
| back-formation | a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it |
calque
calque formation
loan translation | an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language, `superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch' |
| partnership | a contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses |
Roman law
Justinian code
civil law jus civile | the legal code of ancient Rome, codified under Justinian, the basis for many modern systems of civil law |
| partnership | the members of a business venture created by contract |
International Civil Aviation Organization
ICAO | the United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation |
| civil service | government workers, usually hired on the basis of competitive examinations |
| formation | an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit, a defensive formation, a formation of planes |
| military formation | a formation of troops |
| civil law | the body of laws established by a state or nation for its own regulation |
| Civil Rights movement | movement in the United States beginning in the s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens |
geological formation
formation | (geology) the geological features of the earth |
civic leader
civil leader | a leader in municipal affairs |
| civil engineer | an engineer trained to design and construct and maintain public works (roads or bridges or harbors etc.) |
| civil libertarian | a libertarian who is actively concerned with the protection of civil liberties |
civil rights leader
civil rights worker
civil rights activist | a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups |
| civil servant | a public official who is a member of the civil service |
civil authority
civil officer | a person who exercises authority over civilian affairs |
| heat of formation | the heat evolved or absorbed during the formation of one mole of a substance from its component elements |
| partnership certificate | a certificate showing the interests of all parties in a business partnership |
| Civil List | a sum of money voted by British Parliament each year for the expenses of the British royal family |
| formation | natural process that causes something to form, the formation of gas in the intestine, the formation of crystals, the formation of pseudopods |
pair production
pair creation
pair formation | the transformation of a gammaay photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus |
| reaction formation | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them, his strict morality is just a reaction formation to hide his sexual drive |
| partnership | a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal, effective language learning is a partnership between school, teacher and student, the action teams worked in partnership with the government |
| civil death | the legal status of a person who is alive but who has been deprived of the rights and privileges of a citizen or a member of society, the legal status of one sentenced to life imprisonment |
| civil union | a voluntary union for life (or until divorce) of adult parties of the same sex, parties to a civil union have all the same benefits, protections, and responsibilities under Vermont law as spouses in a marriage |
civil order
polity | the form of government of a social organization |