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requisiteness
on the button
on the nose
Regulation Charlie
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fair and square
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nonmandatory
formality
according to Hoyle
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privileged
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expect
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rulemaking
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authorizedly
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straitjacketing
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constitution
fair game
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lawyer up
variance
in line
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ultralegal
run
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promulgate
rigorous
must
permissory
stringent
law and order
technical
tight
authority
juridico-legal
urradhus
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every law has its loophole
illegal
obligate
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legitimate
compliant
regulation
legal
close
substantive
mandated
required
semicompulsory
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on the button
on the nose
compulsory
nonmandatory
nonobligatory
privileged
regulative
regulatory
valid
prescribed
delimited
omnicompetent
law-abiding
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allowable
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ultralegal
licit
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red-tapism
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Regulation Charlie
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law and order
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adj
- In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements.
- Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
- Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
- Authentic, real, genuine.
- Relating to hereditary rights.
- Belonging or relating to the legitimate theater.
noun
verb
adj
noun
- The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
- A numbered provision within such kind of law.
- A type of law made by the executive branch of government, usually by virtue of a statute made by the legislative branch giving the executive the authority to do so.
- Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
- A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
- A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
- Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
verb
- To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.
- To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
- To row.
- To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
- To do or perform.
- To score a certain number of points in a sport.
- To attract or net; to pull in.
- To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
- To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
- To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
- To pluck or pick (flowers, fruit etc.).
- To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
- To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
- To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
- To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
- To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
- To persuade (someone) to have sex with one: to be 'on the pull' - looking for a sexual partner.
- To retrieve or generate for use.
- To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
- To take a swig or mouthful of drink.
- To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
- To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
noun
- The act of drinking; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
- The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology
- A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
- Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
- An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
- Appeal or attraction (e.g. of a movie star).
- A single impression from a handpress.
- A journey made by rowing.
- A proof sheet.
- An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).
- An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; a strain.
- An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
- The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.
- A type of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the on side; a pull shot.
intj
noun
- A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
- Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
- The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
- A level of quality or attainment.
- The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
- The sheth of a plough.
- A collar of mail protecting the neck.
- An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
- One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
- A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.
- Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
- A manual transmission vehicle.
- A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
- A large drinking cup.
- standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language
- A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
- A musical work of established popularity.
- An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
- The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
- Grade level in primary education.
intj
adj
- Having a manual transmission.
- Conforming to the standard variety.
- Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
- As normally supplied (not optional).
- Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
- Having recognized excellence or authority.
- Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
adj
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
- Marked, evident.
- Intimate; well-loved.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- At a little distance; near.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Narrow; confined.
- Short.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
noun
- The common staircase in a tenement.
- A cathedral close.
- The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- An end or conclusion.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- A double bar marking the end.
- A street that ends in a dead end.
verb
- To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- To make a sale.
- To move so that an opening is closed.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
- To come to an end.
- To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- To turn off; to switch off.
adj
- applying to essential legal principles and rules of right.
- Constituting the substance of content rather than its style, and thus always nontrivial.
- Of or pertaining to a substantive.
- actually and legally held, as distinct from an acting, temporary or honorary rank or appointment
- Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
- of the essence or essential element of a thing.
- Depending on itself; independent.
- of a dye that does not need the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed
verb
noun
verb
- To specify, institute, enact, assert firmly, state authoritatively, establish or formulate (rules or policies).
- To sacrifice, especially in the phrase "to lay down one's life."
- To stock, store (e.g. wine) for the future. See also lay by.
- To euthanize an animal.
- To lie down; to place oneself in a reclined or horizontal position, on a bed or similar, for the purpose of resting.
- To give up, surrender, or yield (e.g. a weapon), usually by placing it on the ground.
- simple past tense of lie down
- To intentionally take a fall while riding a motorcycle, in order to prevent a more serious collision.
- To place on the ground, e.g. a railway on a trackbed.
adj
- Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
- Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
- Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
verb
- To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
- To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.
noun
verb
noun
- An order by the League of Nations to a member nation to establish a government responsible for a conquered territory, as the colonies of Germany after World War I.
- A period during which a government is in power.
- Such a territory.
- An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
- The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
adj
- Acceptable, proper or correct; in accordance with the rules.
- Well grounded or justifiable, pertinent.
- Of an argument: whose conclusion is always true whenever its premises are true.
- Genuine - as distinguished from efficient or regular - sacrament.
- Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant.
- Of a formula or system: such that it evaluates to true regardless of the input values.
verb
- To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.
- To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.
- To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.
- To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
- To affirm; to make firm and strong.
- To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
- To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
verb
- To enforce norms or standards upon.
- To clean up an area.
- To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).
noun
- The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
- Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.
- A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.
- A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
- A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
- People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
- Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
verb
- To subject to legal restrictions.
- To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.
- To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern.
- To enforce the law.
noun
- Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
- A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
- The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
- A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
- The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
- The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
- Common law, as contrasted with equity.
- Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
- One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
- Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
- A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
- An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
- Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
- A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
- A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
- A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
- The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
- One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
- An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
- A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
noun
- The formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institutions.
- The act, or process of setting something up, or establishing something; the composition or structure of such a thing; its makeup.
- A legal document describing such a formal system.
- A document issued by a religious authority serving to promulgate some particular church laws or doctrines.
- A person's physical makeup or temperament, especially in respect of robustness.
verb
- To conduct matters in accord with legal formalities or so as to avoid legal risk.
- To arrange in a way reflecting legal advice.
- To exercise one's right to legal representation, especially on the occasion of refusing to answer law-enforcement officials' questions without the presence of such legal representation.
noun
- An official permit to do something that is ordinarily forbidden by regulations.
- A discrepancy between two legal documents.
- A departure from a cause of action originally in a complaint.
- The act of varying or the state of being variable.
- The state of differing or being in conflict.
- The number of degrees of freedom in a system.
- Covariance and contravariance generally.
- A difference between what is expected and what is observed; deviation.
- The second central moment in probability.
verb
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- To print or broadcast in the media.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
- To be a candidate in an election.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- To control or manage, be in charge of.
- To smuggle (illegal goods).
- To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To make run in a race.
- To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
- To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- To speedrun.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To move or spread quickly.
- To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- To make a machine operate.
- To become liquid; to melt.
- To make something extend in space.
- Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
- To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
- To be presented in the media.
- Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- To cost a large amount of money.
- Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- Of a liquid, to flow.
- To compete in a race.
- Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To make run in an election.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- To have growth or development.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
- To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
- To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
noun
- Something that is mandatory or required.
- Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
- The property of being stale or musty.
- Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.
verb
- To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a failure or negative consequence.
- To become musty.
- Used to indicate that something that is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.
- To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.
- To make musty.
adj
- according to strict interpretation of the law or set of rules
- of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill
- characterizing or showing skill in or specialized knowledge of applied arts and sciences
- of or relating to a practical subject that is organized according to scientific principles
- relating to or concerned with machinery or tools
adj
- of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood
- resulting from or dependent on market factors rather than fundamental economic considerations
noun
adj
- demanding strict attention to rules and procedures
- pulled or drawn tight
- set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration
- pressed tightly together
- (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
- affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow
- of textiles
- securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- very drunk
- exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent
- packed closely together
adj
adv
noun
- Official permission; authorisation to act in some capacity on behalf of a ruling entity.
- A reliable, definitive source of information on a subject.
- Persons, regarded collectively, who occupy official positions of power; police or law enforcement.
- 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.
- Power or right to make or enforce rules or give orders; or a position having such power or right.
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