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noun
- A person who tells stories
- (context, chiefly, US) a bank clerk who receives and pays out money
- An automated teller machine
- A person who counts the votes in an election
noun (often Territorial)
- a non-professional member of a Territorial Army
adjective (sometimes Territorial)
- of, relating to, or restricted to a specific geographic area, or territory
- (often capitalized) organized for home defence - such as the Territorial Army
- (biology) displaying territoriality
noun
- Extreme or intense fear.
- Something that causes such fear.
noun
- The deliberate commission of an act of violence to create an emotional response from the victim in the furtherance of a political or social agenda.
- Violence against civilians to achieve military or political objectives.
- A psychological strategy of war for gaining political or religious ends by deliberately creating a climate of fear among the population of a state.
noun
- One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; originally applied to an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the w:Reign of Terror, Reign of Terror in France.
- Anyone who uses terror as a weapon in a political struggle, frequently in an attempt to coerce a more powerful opponent, such as a government.
adjective
- Of or relating to terrorism.
noun
- a theocratic ruler
- an advocate of theocracy
noun
- (context, obsolete, Historical) A public assembly or council in a Scandinavian country
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1997, Before Thorstein left home, he and Asgerd decided to take Arinbjorn's gift, the silk cloak, out of Egil's chest, and Thorstein wore it to the . " "Egil's Saga", tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders (Penguin 2001, p. 168)
noun
- a political party in opposition to the main parties in a two-party system
- someone not directly involved in a transaction. A third entity in the Seller (first party) and Customer (second party) relationship. A Seller may employ a third party to perform specific services to augment the value of a product. For example, a manufacturer may employ a third party to pack and distribute a product. A computer manufacturer may augment their product with software from a third
party supplier.
noun
- Those countries not aligned with the west or the east during the Cold War.
- (pejorative): The developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
- (rfv-sense) Minority groups as a whole.
noun ( timocrac, ies)
- (Platonism) A form of government in which ambition for honor, power and military glory motivates the rulers.
- (Aristotelianism) A form of government in which civic honor or political power increases with the amount of property one owns.
noun
- The sound of small metallic bell
verb
- To make a ting sound
- When the food was ready, the bell tinged
noun
- The territory of a town; a subdivision of a county.
- (context, South African English, Pre 1994) An area set aside for non-white occupation.
- (context, South African English, Post 1994) A non-white (usually sub-economic) area attached to a city.
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1972, Daily Dispatch: "In addition, the council has completed the planning of a new Coloured on the site of the existing African "
adjective
- (context, South African English) Relating to a township.
- Township life
- Township music
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1970, Drum: The play is a departure from most musicals which treat township life as an unending song, one bout of drinking; one long knife fight.
noun
- The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
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We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of .
- (historical) Deportation to a penal colony.
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Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to .
- A means of conveyance.
- Nice , dude, but your brake lights are busted.
noun ( pl=triumviri, pl2=triumvirs)
- One member of a triumvirate
noun
- A group or association of three.
noun
- The political philosophy named after w:Leon Trotsky, Leon Trotsky that is characterized by the theory of w:permanent revolution, permanent revolution and the theory of the w:vanguard party, vanguard party.
noun
- an advocate of the communist doctrines of w:Leon Trotsky, Leon Trotsky
noun
- any territory placed under the administration of a state by the United Nations
noun
- the territory ruled by a tsar; a czardom
noun
- the daughter of a tsar; a czarevna
noun
- an empress of several Eastern European countries, especially Russia.
noun
- a system of government ruled by a tsar; czarism
noun
- one who supports a tsar
adjective
- expressing support for a tsar
initialism
- Tennessee Valley Authority
noun
- A Slavic emperor (not necessarily a Russian emperor)
noun
- an empress of several Eastern European countries, especially Russia.
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