about-face volte-face
reversal policy change | a major change in attitude or principle or point of view, an about-face on foreign policy |
| scorched-earth policy | the target company defends itself by selling off its crown jewels |
somatotropin
somatotrophin
somatotropic hormone
somatotrophic hormone
STH
human growth hormone
growth hormone | a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland, promotes growth in humans |
defense program
defense policy
defence program
defence policy | a program for defending a country against its enemies |
tax program
tax policy | a program for setting taxes |
| policy | a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group, it was a policy of retribution, a politician keeps changing his policies |
beggar-my-neighbor policy
beggar-my-neighbour policy
beggar-my-neighbor strategy
beggar-my-neighbour strategy | a policy of promoting oneself at the expense of others, used especially of national policy, the United States has pursued a beggar-my-neighbor policy |
policy insurance policy
insurance | written contract or certificate of insurance, you should have read the small print on your policy |
floater
floating policy | an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location |
| policy | a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government, they debated the policy or impolicy of the proposed legislation |
| economic policy | a government policy for maintaining economic growth and tax revenues |
| fiscal policy | a government policy for dealing with the budget (especially with taxation and borrowing) |
| social policy | a policy of for dealing with social issues |
| foreign policy | a policy governing international relations |
trade policy
national trading policy | a government's policy controlling foreign trade |
open-door policy
open door | the policy of granting equal trade opportunities to all countries |
| zero-tolerance policy | any policy that allows no exception, a zero-tolerance policy toward pedophile priests |
emergence outgrowth
growth | the gradual beginning or coming forth, figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece |
rapid climb
rapid growth
zoom | a rapid rise |
| growth industry | an industry that is growing rapidly |
| Council on Environmental Policy | the executive agency that advises the President on protecting the environment |
| growth | vegetation that has grown, a growth of trees, the only growth was some salt grass |
| growth | something grown or growing, a growth of hair |
| policy maker | someone who sets the plan pursued by a government or business etc., policy makers often make the right decision for the wrong reason |
annual ring
growth ring | an annual formation of wood in plants as they grow |
old growth
virgin forest | forest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity |
| second growth | a second growth of trees covering an area where the original stand was destroyed by fire or cutting |
| growth stock | stock of a corporation that has had faster than average gains in earnings and is expected to continue to |
| economic growth | steady growth in the productive capacity of the economy (and so a growth of national income) |
growth
growing
maturation
development ontogeny
ontogenesis | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically, a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level, he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children |
| growth | a progression from simpler to more complex forms, the growth of culture |
increase
increment
growth | a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important, the increase in unemployment, the growth of population |
| population growth | increase in the number of people who inhabit a territory or state |
type I diabetes
insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
IDDM
juvenile-onset diabetes
juvenile diabetes
growth-onset diabetes
ketosis-prone diabetes
ketoacidosis-prone diabetes
autoimmune diabetes | severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset, characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis, diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease |
| growth | (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) |
| growth factor | a protein that is involved in cell differentiation and growth |
nerve growth factor
NGF | a protein that is involved in the growth of peripheral nerve cells |
phytohormone
plant hormone
growth regulator | (botany) a plant product that acts like a hormone |
growth hormoneeleasing factor
GHRF | a releasing factor that accelerates the secretion of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary body |
growth rate
rate of growth | the rate of increase in size per unit time |
| policy-making | concerned with policy, not administration |