soccer association football | a football game in which two teams of players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal |
welfare work social service | an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society |
Secretary of Health Education and Welfare | head of a former executive department created in and divided into two departments in |
association | the act of consorting with or joining with others, you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association |
social welfare welfare public assistance | governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need, she lives on welfare |
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations NASDAQ | a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter |
benefit welfare | something that aids or promotes well-being, for the benefit of all |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Kurdistan Workers Party Kurdistan Labor Pary Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan PPK | a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey |
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 |
Department of Health Education and Welfare | a former executive department of the United States government, created in and divided in |
welfare state | a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc. |
United Mine Workers of America United Mine Workers | an industrial union of mine workers in North America |
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 |
National Socialist German Workers' Party Nazi Party | the political party founded in Germany in and brought to power by Hitler in |
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 |
child welfare agency child welfare service | an administrative unit responsible for social work concerned with the welfare and vocational training of children |
Industrial Workers of the World IWW I.W.W. | a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States, founded in Chicago inand dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism, its membership declined after World War I |
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 |
social worker caseworker welfare worker | someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged) |
welfare case charity case | a case for a welfare worker |
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 |
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 |
wellbeing well-being welfare upbeat eudaemonia eudaimonia | a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous, the town was finally on the upbeat after our recent troubles |
welfarist welfare-statist | of or relating to a welfare state |