Attachment
(n.) The act attaching, or state of being attached |
Attachment
(n.) That by which one thing is attached to another |
Attachment
(n.) Something attached |
Attachment
(n.) A seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process. |
Attachment
(n.) The writ or percept commanding such seizure or taking. |
Debt
(n.) That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services |
Debt
(n.) A duty neglected or violated |
Debt
(n.) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due. |
Earnings
(pl. ) of Earning |
Foreign
(a.) Outside |
Foreign
(a.) Not native or belonging to a certain country |
Foreign
(a.) Remote |
Foreign
(a.) Held at a distance |
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 |
Garnishment
(n.) Ornament |
Garnishment
(n.) Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter. |
Garnishment
(n.) Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the money or deliver the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and give information as garnishee. |
Garnishment
(n.) A fee. See Garnish, n., 4. |
Provisional
(a.) Of the nature of a provision |
Salary
(a.) Saline |
Salary
(n.) The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services |
Salary
(v. t.) To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to |
Subject
(a.) Placed or situated under |
Subject
(a.) Placed under the power of another |
Subject
(a.) Exposed |
Subject
(a.) Obedient |
Subject
(a.) That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else. |
Subject
(a.) Specifically: One who is under the authority of a ruler and is governed by his laws |
Subject
(a.) That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process |
Subject
(a.) That which is brought under thought or examination |
Subject
(a.) The person who is treated of |
Subject
(a.) That of which anything is affirmed or predicated |
Subject
(a.) That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain |
Subject
(a.) Hence, that substance or being which is conscious of its own operations |
Subject
(n.) The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based. |
Subject
(n.) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent. |
Subject
(v. t.) To bring under control, power, or dominion |
Subject
(v. t.) To expose |
Subject
(v. t.) To submit |
Subject
(v. t.) To make subservient. |
Subject
(v. t.) To cause to undergo |
Subject-matter
(n.) The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion |
Wages
(n.) A compensation given to a hired person for services |
fastening
attachment | the act of fastening things together |
pay cut
salary cut | the act of reducing a salary |
| attachment affixation | the act of attaching or affixing something |
| foreign direct investment | a joint venture between a foreign company and a United States company |
| foreign direct investment | investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business) |
attachment adherence
adhesion | faithful support for a cause or political party or religion, attachment to a formal agenda, adherence to a fat-free diet, the adhesion of Seville was decisive |
| attachment | a supplementary part or accessory |
| attachment bond | a connection that fastens things together |
dinner dress
dinner gown
formal
evening gown | a gown for evening wear |
| formal garden | a garden laid out on regular lines with plants arranged in symmetrical locations or in geometrical designs |
subject
content
depicted object | something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation, a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject |
raise
rise wage hike
hike
wage increase
salary increase | the amount a salary is increased, he got a % raise, he got a wage hike |
prejudgment
prejudgement | a judgment reached before the evidence is available |
topic
subject issue
matter | some situation or event that is thought about, he kept drifting off the topic, he had been thinking about the subject for several years, it is a matter for the police |
discipline
subject
subject area
subject field
field
field of study
study bailiwick | a branch of knowledge, in what discipline is his doctorate?, teachers should be well trained in their subject, anthropology is the study of human beings |
symbolic logic
mathematical logic
formal logic | any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity |
| formal semantics | the branch of semantics that studies the logical aspects of meaning |
| subject | (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence, the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated |
| subject | (logic) the first term of a proposition |
nominative
nominative case
subject case | the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb |
| attachment | a writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding |
| garnishment | a court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
FISA | an act passed by Congress in to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, intended to increase United States counterintelligence, separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance |
message
content
subject matter
substance | what a communication that is about something is about |
subject
topic
theme | the subject matter of a conversation or discussion, he didn't want to discuss that subject, it was a very sensitive topic, his letters were always on the theme of love |
| short subject | a brief film, often shown prior to showing the feature |
| foreign policy | a policy governing international relations |
| debt | an obligation to pay or do something |
wages
reward
payoff | a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing, the wages of sin is death, virtue is its own reward |
ball
formal | a lavish dance requiring formal attire |
attachment
fond regard | a feeling of affection for a person or an institution |
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Provisional Irish Republican Army
Provisional IRA
Provos | a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland |
| Foreign Office | the government department in charge of foreign relations |
French Foreign Office
Quai d'Orsay | the French department in charge of foreign affairs, referred to familiarly by its address in Paris |
| Foreign Service | the part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world |
| foreign country | any state of which one is not a citizen, working in a foreign country takes a bit of getting used to |
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW | an organization of United States war veterans |
| foreign legion | a military unit composed of foreign volunteers who serve the state |
| French Foreign Legion | a former foreign legion in the French army that was used for military duties outside of France |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
F.I.S.C. | a secret federal court created in by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies |
Foreign Intelligence Service
Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki
SVR | Russia's intelligence service responsible for foreign operations, intelligence-gathering and analysis, and the exchange of intelligence information, collaborates with other countries to oppose proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and organized crime |
terrorist organization
terrorist group
foreign terrorist organization
FTO | a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals |
legation
foreign mission | a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister |
mission missionary post
missionary station
foreign mission | an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work |
national
subject | a person who owes allegiance to that nation, a monarch has a duty to his subjects |
| foreign agent | a spy for a foreign country |
| foreign correspondent | a journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a foreign country for publication or broadcast |
foreign minister
secretary of state | a government minister for foreign relations |
| subject case guinea pig | a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures, someone who is an object of investigation, the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly, the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities |
vassal
liege
liegeman
liege subject
feudatory | a person holding a fief, a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord |