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posse |
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a temporary police force |
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parliamentary democracy |
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a democracy having a parliament |
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posse comitatus |
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the power of a law officer to recruit citizens to help in the execution of their duties |
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parliamentary monarchy |
Noun
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a monarchy having a parliament |
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petty apartheid |
Noun
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racial segregation enforced primarily in public transportation and hotels and restaurants and other public places |
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philanthropic foundation |
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a foundation that provides funds for science or art or education or religion or relief from disease etc. |
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private foundation |
Noun
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a charity that does not receive a major part of its support from the public |
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public charity |
Noun
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a charity that is deemed to receive the major part of its support from the public (rather than from a small group of individuals) |
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private enterprise |
Noun
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an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices |
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planning board |
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a board appointed to advise the chief administrator |
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preparatory school |
Noun
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a private secondary school |
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private corporation |
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a corporation owned by a few people |
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prep school |
Noun
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a private secondary school |
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political system |
Noun
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the members of a social organization who are in power |
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privately held corporation |
Noun
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a corporation owned by a few people |
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public school |
Noun
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a tuition free school in the United States supported by taxes and controlled by a school board |
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public school |
Noun
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private independent secondary school in Great Britain supported by endowment and tuition |
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posterity |
Noun
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all future generations |
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posterity |
Noun
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all of the offspring of a given progenitor |
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private school |
Noun
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a school established and controlled privately and supported by endowment and tuition |
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playschool |
Noun
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a small informal nursery group meeting for half-day sessions |
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play group |
Noun
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a small informal nursery group meeting for half-day sessions |
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punks |
Noun
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a youth subculture closely associated with punk rock music in the late 1970s |
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power breakfast |
Noun
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a meeting of influential people to conduct business while eating breakfast |
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political movement |
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a group of people working together to achieve a political goal |
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petty jury |
Noun
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a jury of 12 to determine the facts and decide the issue in civil or criminal proceedings |
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pro-choice faction |
Noun
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those who argue that the decision to have an induced abortion should be made by the mother |
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pro-life faction |
Noun
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those who argue that induced abortion is killing and should be prohibited |
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picket line |
Noun
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a line of people acting as pickets |
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patterned advance |
Noun
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a series with a definite pattern of advance |
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panoply |
Noun
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a complete and impressive array |
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public mover |
Noun
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a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another |
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police state |
Noun
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a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police) |
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pedestrian traffic |
Noun
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people coming and going on foot |
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property line |
Noun
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the boundary line between two pieces of property |
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precinct |
Noun
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a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes |
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police precinct |
Noun
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a precinct in which law enforcement is the responsibility of particular police force |
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polling place |
Noun
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a place where voters go to cast their votes in an election |
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polling station |
Noun
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a place where voters go to cast their votes in an election |
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purlieu |
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an outer adjacent area of any place |
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pocket borough |
Noun
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a sparsely populated borough in which all or most of the land is owned by a single family |
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post-office box number |
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the number of a letter box at the post office where mail is collected |
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pleasure ground |
Noun
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a commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement |
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place of birth |
Noun
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the place where someone was born |
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place of origin |
Noun
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where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence |
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provenance |
Noun
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where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence |
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provenience |
Noun
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where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence |
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point of apoapsis |
Noun
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(astronomy) the point in an orbit farthest from the body being orbited |
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polar circle |
Noun
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a line of latitude at the north or south poles |
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palatinate |
Noun
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a territory under the jurisdiction of a count palatine |