Power or right to make or enforce rules or give orders; or a position having such power or right.
A reliable, definitive source of information on a subject.
Persons, regarded collectively, who occupy official positions of power; police or law enforcement.
Official permission; authorisation to act in some capacity on behalf of a ruling entity.
A government-owned agency that runs a revenue-generating activity for public benefit.
Status as a trustworthy source of information, reputation for mastery or expertise; or claim to such status or reputation.
A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
A calculation that involves this process.
Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
The act or process of dividing anything.
A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
The process of dividing a number by another.
A parliamentary constituency.
A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
A lesson; a class.
A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.