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 |
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA | an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico, became effective in for ten years |
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations NASDAQ | a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter |
agreement correspondence | compatibility of observations, there was no agreement between theory and measurement, the results of two tests were in correspondence |
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 |
agreement arrangement | the thing arranged or agreed to, they made arrangements to meet in Chicago |
associationism association theory | (psychology) a theory that association is the basic principle of mental activity |
purchase contract purchase agreement | a contract stating the terms of a purchase |
fair-trade agreement | an agreement (illegal in the United States) between the manufacturer of a trademarked item of merchandise and its retail distributors to sell the item at a price at or above the price set by the manufacturer |
articles of agreement shipping articles | a contract between crew and captain of a ship |
labor contract labor agreement collective agreement | contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions |
employment contract employment agreement | contract between employer and employee |
distribution agreement | a contract governing the marketing of an item of merchandise |
licensing agreement | contract giving someone the legal right to use a patent or trademark |
merger agreement acquisition agreement | contract governing the merger of two or more companies |
sale sales agreement | an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer), the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office |
agreement understanding | the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises, they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business, there was an understanding between management and the workers |
working agreement | an informal agreement to work together |
gentlemen's agreement | a personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding |
written agreement | a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties |
agreement | the verbal act of agreeing |
severance agreement | an agreement on the terms on which an employee will leave |
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 |
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 |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT | a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas |
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 |
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 |
agreement concord | the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations |
number agreement | agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify) |
person agreement | agreement in person between pronouns and verbs |
case agreement | agreement in grammatical case between words in the same construction |
gender agreement | agreement in grammatical gender between words in the same construction |