Pournelle's law
bureaucratization
performative authoritarianism
multibureaucratic
bureaucratize
color of authority
Raj
dharma
privateering
antibureaucratic
democratic
ritualist
paddle one's own canoe
bigfoot
impose
administrative kingship
totalitarian
essential
juristocracy
panarchy
chirocracy
office work
ultra vires
regent
substantive
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authoritarian
corruption
totalitation regime
debureaucratic
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teleocracy
autocracy
look out for number one
cryptarchy
bureaucratically
handover
issue
despotism
institutionalizable
take
absolutism
self-ordained
produce
safe conduct
tyranthood
federalise
calculating
federalize
institutional
take over
official
rugged individualism
bureaucratic inertia
antibureaucracy
disaffection
tai chi
impressment
Caesar
submitter
dictatorship
under one's own steam
judiciary
impress
antibureaucrat
rulership
responsible
bureaucratic
by
obligator
hierarchism
presiding
constitutive
incumbent
totalism
intra vires
go
postinstitutionalized
institutionally
charge
regime
institutionism
personal transaction
totalitarianism
commissioning
compulsion
kratocracy
ancien régime
federalization
kartavya
nationalism
intragovernmental
commission
TPS report
entitlement
burocratic
multibureaucratic
antibureaucratic
democratic
totalitarian
essential
regent
substantive
authoritarian
debureaucratic
institutionalizable
self-ordained
calculating
institutional
official
antibureaucracy
antibureaucrat
responsible
bureaucratic
presiding
constitutive
incumbent
intra vires
postinstitutionalized
intragovernmental
burocratic
ultra vires
bureaucratically
institutionally
bureaucratization
performative authoritarianism
color of authority
Raj
dharma
privateering
ritualist
administrative kingship
juristocracy
panarchy
chirocracy
office work
totalitarian state
corruption
totalitation regime
heterarchy
teleocracy
autocracy
cryptarchy
handover
despotism
absolutism
safe conduct
tyranthood
rugged individualism
bureaucratic inertia
disaffection
impressment
submitter
dictatorship
judiciary
impress
rulership
obligator
hierarchism
totalism
regime
institutionism
personal transaction
totalitarianism
commissioning
compulsion
kratocracy
ancien régime
federalization
kartavya
nationalism
commission
TPS report
entitlement
bureaucratize
paddle one's own canoe
bigfoot
impose
look out for number one
issue
take
produce
federalise
federalize
take over
tai chi
go
charge
noun
- One's obligation in respect to one's position in society, or the universe; one's duty, societally or cosmically.
- The natural order of the universe; natural law, cosmic order.
- The teachings of the Buddha as one's personal path to enlightenment.
- The teachings of the Buddha as a practice to be promulgated and taught.
verb
- To establish or apply by authority.
- To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
- To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.
- to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
- To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
- to be an inconvenience (on or upon)
noun
- The individual's right to choose any form of government without being forced to move from their current locale.
- An all-encompassing realm.
- Rule by all; a system of governance in which each person has absolute power.
- Dynamic symmetry across multiple scales.
- An inclusive, multilateral system in which all parties may participate meaningfully.
- Rule of all; absolute or total rule.
noun
- Work that is part of a bureaucracy.
- A set of related activities including record-keeping, organizing, accounting, communicating, editing, or managing
- Any activity intended to be productive primarily using the mind and not requiring significant movement or bodily exertion
- Any work that takes place in an office except facility maintenance and janitorial services
adj
noun
- A member of governing board of a college or university; also a governor of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.
- One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled.
- The chief executive of a regency
- A member of a municipal or civic body of governors, especially in certain European cities.
noun
- Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, and so on.
- The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
- The product of corruption; putrid matter.
- The decomposition of biological matter.
- The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.
- The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
- A nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, assigned a value judgment as being debased, especially when resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, or mishearing.
- The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity
- Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.
noun
- The transference of authority, control, power or knowledge from one agency to another, or from one state to another.
- the process of transferring an ongoing call or data session from one channel connected to the core network to another channel.
- The transfer of goods from the dealer to the purchaser, often of illegal goods.
- the process of transferring satellite control responsibility from one earth station to another without loss or interruption of service.
- The information passed on in such a case.
verb
- To deliver by authority.
- To rush out, to sally forth.
- To deliver for use.
- To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
- To extend into, to open onto.
- To send out; to put into circulation.
- To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
- To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
noun
- Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
- A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
- The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
- Any financial instrument issued by a company.
- The production or distribution of something for general use.
- A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
- Offspring: one's natural child or children.
- The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
- The entire set of something; all of something.
- The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
- The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
- The action or an instance of sending something out
- A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
- The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out
- Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
- A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
- Any question or situation to be resolved
- The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
- Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
verb
- To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To seize or capture.
- To remove.
- To go.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To proceed to fill.
- To participate in.
- To let in (water).
- To move into.
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- To assume (a form).
- To go into, through, or along.
- To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- To have sex with.
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To experience or feel.
- To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- An intensifier.
- To require.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To escort or conduct (a person).
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To receive into some relationship.
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To catch; to engage.
- To grasp or grip.
- To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- To exact.
- To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- To remove or end by death; to kill.
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- To subtract.
- To bind oneself by.
- To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
- To perform (a role).
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- To accept and follow (advice, etc).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
- To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- To have the intended effect.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To have and use one's recourse to.
noun
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- The or an act of taking.
- A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
noun
- The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.
- Belief in a metaphysical absolute; belief in Absolute.
- Positiveness; the state of being absolute.
- The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope; absoluteness.
- Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner.
verb
- To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
- To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
- To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.
- To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
- To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing.
noun
verb
- To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
- To become more successful (than someone or something else).
- To assume control of something, especially by force; to usurp.
- To appropriate something without permission.
- To buy out the ownership of a business.
- To relieve someone temporarily.
- To annex a territory by conquest or invasion.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.
adj
- Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority
- Discharging an office or function.
- Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
- True, real, beyond doubt.
- Approved by authority; authorized.
- Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.
- Dubious but recognized by authorities as truth and/or canon.
- Listed in a national pharmacopeia.
- Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
- Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
noun
noun
verb
adj
- Having the duty of taking care of something; answerable for an act performed or for its consequences; accountable; amenable, especially legally or politically.
- Capable of rational conduct and thus morally accountable for one's behavior.
- Able to be trusted; reliable; trustworthy.
- Answerable to (a superior).
- Involving important duties; involving a degree of personal accountability on the part of the person concerned.
- Having good judgment in decision-making.
- Being a primary cause of a situation or action and thus able to be blamed or credited for it.
- In honor shame culture and patronage, the patron of the entity denoted by the prepositional phrase's compliment AKA object, the entity being its client. In this context the patron is usually being described analogously to a rump state that would govern the client, functioning as though it were a complaints department and a disciplinary apparatus by getting involved in any disputes involving the client, e.g. by acid attacking its own client or by taking revenge against the client's accuser.
noun
prep
- Indicates an authority according to which something is done.
- Following a passive verb.
- Acted on in units of the specified size or measure. (Sometimes hyperbolically)
- Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
- Indicates the amount of change, difference or discrepancy
- Indicates a means of achieving something: Involving/using the means of.
- Indicates a means of classification or organisation.
- At, with, among
- Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
- Not later than (the given time); not later than the end of (the given time interval).
- Near or next to.
- Following a noun.
- Following an adjective.
- In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
- per; with or in proportion to each.
- Indicates a referenced source: According to.
- Invokes an authority in an oath.
- Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
- From one side of something to the other, passing close by; past.
adj
adv
adj
- Imposed on someone as an obligation, especially due to one's office.
- Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent.
- Being the current holder of an office or a title.
- Resting on something else; in botany, said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them
- Prevalent, prevailing, predominant.
- Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else.
noun
verb
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
adj
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
verb
- To assign a duty or responsibility to.
- To cause to take on an electric charge.
- To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
- To assign (a debit) to an account.
- To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
- To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- To call to account; to challenge.
- To impute or ascribe.
- To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
- To commit a charging foul.
- To add to or represent on.
- To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
- To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
- To ornament with or cause to bear.
- To assume as a bearing.
- To replenish energy.
- To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
noun
- An instruction.
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- A load or burden; cargo.
- A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
- A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- A sort of plaster or ointment.
- An electric charge.
- An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- Cannabis.
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- A measured amount of explosive.
- An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
noun
- the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals
- love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
- the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other
- the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination
noun
- the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions
- a special group delegated to consider some matter
- a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary)
- the state of being in good working order and ready for operation
- a group of representatives or delegates
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces
- the act of committing a crime
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
verb
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