law
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(noun) the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system; "he studied law at Yale" |
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Synonyms: practice of law |
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Related Words: learned profession |
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(noun) a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
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Synonyms: natural law |
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Related Words: concept, conception, construct, divine law, principle, sound law |
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(noun) a generalization based on recurring facts or events (in science or mathematics etc): "the laws of thermodynamics |
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Synonyms: law of nature |
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Related Words: Bernoulli's law, Boyle's law, Charles' law, Dalton's law, Dalton's law of partial pressures, Gay-Lussac's law, Gresham's law, Kepler's law, Kepler's law of planetary motion, Mariotte's law, Mendel's law, Mendeleev's law, Newton's law, Newton's law of gravitation, Newton's law of motion, Ohm's law, Pauli exclusion principle, all-or-none law, concept, conception, construct, exclusion principle, law of averages, law of constant proportion, law of definite proportions, law of diminishing returns, law of effect, law of equivalent proportions, law of gravitation, law of large numbers, law of mass action, law of motion, law of multiple proportions, law of partial pressures, law of reciprocal proportions, law of volumes, periodic law, principle, rule |
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(noun) one of a set of rules governing a particular activity or a legal document setting forth such a rule; "there is a law against kidnapping" |
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Related Words: Riot Act, blue law, blue sky law, constitution, fundamental law, homestead law, instrument, legal document, legal instrument, official document, organic law, poor law, prescript, prohibition, public law, rule, statute of limitations |
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(noun) the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law" |
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Synonyms: jurisprudence |
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Related Words: Laws of Moses, Mosaic law, accumulation, administrative law, admiralty law, aggregation, assemblage, canon law, civil law, collection, commercial law, ecclesiastical law, international law, law merchant, law of nations, law of the land, maritime law, martial law, mercantile law, securities law, statutory law |
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(noun) the branch of philosophy concerned with the law |
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Synonyms: jurisprudence, legal philosophy |
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Related Words: philosophy |
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(noun) the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him" |
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Synonyms: constabulary, police, police force |
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Related Words: New Scotland Yard, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Scotland Yard, force, gendarmerie, gendarmery, personnel, posse, posse comitatus, secret police, vice squad |
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