Blood money
() Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another. |
Blood money
() Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life |
Cheat
(n.) An act of deception or fraud |
Cheat
(n.) One who cheats or deceives |
Cheat
(n.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields |
Cheat
(n.) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth. |
Cheat
(n.) To deceive and defraud |
Cheat
(n.) To beguile. |
Cheat
(v. i.) To practice fraud or trickery |
Cheat
(n.) Wheat, or bread made from wheat. |
Control
(n.) A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register |
Control
(n.) That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder |
Control
(n.) Power or authority to check or restrain |
Control
(v. t.) To check by a counter register or duplicate account |
Control
(v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over |
Formal
(n.) See Methylal. |
Formal
(a.) Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing. |
Formal
(a.) Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it |
Formal
(a.) Done in due form, or with solemnity |
Formal
(a.) Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules |
Formal
(a.) Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence |
Formal
(a.) Dependent in form |
Formal
(a.) Sound |
Government
(n.) The act of governing |
Government
(n.) The mode of governing |
Government
(n.) The right or power of governing |
Government
(n.) The person or persons authorized to administer the laws |
Government
(n.) The body politic governed by one authority |
Government
(n.) Management of the limbs or body. |
Government
(n.) The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. |
Money
(n.) A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government |
Money
(n.) Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it |
Money
(n.) In general, wealth |
Money
(v. t.) To supply with money. |
Money-maker
(n.) One who coins or prints money |
Money-maker
(n.) One who accumulates money or wealth |
Money-making
(n.) The act or process of making money |
Money-making
(a.) Affording profitable returns |
Money-making
(a.) Sussessful in gaining money, and devoted to that aim |
People
(n.) The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race |
People
(n.) Persons, generally |
People
(n.) The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class |
People
(n.) One's ancestors or family |
People
(n.) One's subjects |
People
(v. t.) To stock with people or inhabitants |
Scheme
(n.) A combination of things connected and adjusted by design |
Scheme
(n.) A plan or theory something to be done |
Scheme
(n.) Any lineal or mathematical diagram |
Scheme
(n.) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event. |
Scheme
(v. t.) To make a scheme of |
capture
gaining control
seizure | the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property |
| fire control | preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target |
ploy
gambit stratagem | a maneuver in a game or conversation |
| inventory control | supervision of the supply and storage and accessibility of items in order to insure an adequate supply without excessive oversupply |
| waste of money | money spent for inadequate return, the senator said that the project was a waste of money |
cheat
cheating | a deception for profit to yourself |
racket
fraudulent scheme
illegitimate enterprise | an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit |
swindle
cheat rig | the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme, that book is a fraud |
| control | the activity of managing or exerting control over something, the control of the mob by the police was admirable |
| crowd control | activity of controlling a crowd |
| damage control | an effort to minimize or curtail damage or loss |
| flight control | control from ground stations of airplanes in flight by means of messages transmitted to the pilot electronically |
| flood control | (engineering) the art or technique of trying to control rivers with dams etc in order to minimize the occurrence of floods |
| gun control | efforts to regulate or control sales of guns |
| internal control | an accounting procedure or system designed to promote efficiency or assure the implementation of a policy or safeguard assets or avoid fraud and error etc. |
| management control | an internal control performed by one or more managers |
| quality control | maintenance of standards of quality of manufactured goods |
| arms control | a limitation on the size and armament of the armed forces of a country |
riot control
riot control operation | the measures taken to control a riot |
| control | (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc, the timing and control of his movements were unimpaired, he had lost control of his sphincters |
| motor control | control of muscles |
birth control
birth prevention
family planning | limiting the number of children born |
rhythm method of birth control
rhythm method
rhythm
calendar method of birth control
calendar method | natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from daythrough day of her cycle) |
| money laundering | concealing the source of illegally gotten money |
| traffic control | control of the flow of traffic in a building or a city |
| social control | control exerted (actively or passively) by group action |
| population control | control over the growth of population, a government program |
government
governing
governance
government activity
administration | the act of governing, exercising authority, regulations for the governing of state prisons, he had considerable experience of government |
| occupation military control | the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power |
money cowrie
Cypraea moneta | cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of the southern Pacific and in parts of Africa |
airfoil
aerofoil
control surface
surface | a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air, can lift or control a plane in flight |
cashbox
money box
till | a strongbox for holding cash |
contraceptive
preventive preventative contraceptive device
prophylactic device
birth control device | an agent or device intended to prevent conception |
control
controller | a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine, the speed controller on his turntable was not working properly, I turned the controls over to her |
| control center | the operational center for a group of related activities, the general in command never left the control center |
control circuit
negative feedback circuit | a feedback circuit that subtracts from the input |
control key
command key | (computer science) the key on a computer keyboard that is used (in combination with some other key) to type control characters |
control panel
instrument panel
control board
board panel | electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices, he checked the instrument panel, suddenly the board lit up like a Christmas tree |
| control rod | a steel or aluminum rod that can be moved up or down to control the rate of the nuclear reaction |
| control room | a room housing control equipment (as in a recording studio) |
| control system | a system for controlling the operation of another system |
| control tower | a tower with an elevated workspace enclosed in glass for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport |
| cruise control | control mechanism for keeping an automobile at a set speed |
dinner dress
dinner gown
formal
evening gown | a gown for evening wear |
| fire control radar | naval radar that controls the delivery of fire on a military target |
| fire control system | naval weaponry consisting of a system for controlling the delivery of fire on a military target |
| formal garden | a garden laid out on regular lines with plants arranged in symmetrical locations or in geometrical designs |
| government building | a building that houses a branch of government |
| government office | an office where government employees work |
| grid control grid | an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube |