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Noun
S: (n) law, jurisprudence (the collection of rules imposed by authority) "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
S: (n) enabling legislation (legislation that gives appropriate officials the authority to implement or enforce the law)
S: (n) occupational safety and health act, federal job safety law (a law passed by the United States Congress that created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment)
S: (n) common law, case law, precedent (a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws) "common law originated in the unwritten laws of England and was later applied in the United States"
S: (n) maritime law, marine law, admiralty law (the branch of international law that deals with territorial and international waters or with shipping or with ocean fishery etc.)
S: (n) law of the land (a phrase used in the Magna Carta to refer to the then established law of the kingdom (as distinct from Roman or civil law); today it refers to fundamental principles of justice commensurate with due process) "the United States Constitution declares itself to be `the supreme law of the land'"
S: (n) martial law (the body of law imposed by the military over civilian affairs (usually in time of war or civil crisis); overrides civil law)
S: (n) military law (the body of laws and rules of conduct administered by military courts for the discipline, trial, and punishment of military personnel)
S: (n) Mosaic law, Law of Moses (the laws (beginning with the Ten Commandments) that God gave to the Israelites through Moses; it includes many rules of religious observance given in the first five books of the Old Testament (in Judaism these books are called the Torah))
S: (n) shariah, shariah law, sharia, sharia law, Islamic law (the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed) "sharia is only applicable to Muslims"; "under Islamic law there is no separation of church and state"
S: (n) hudud, hudood (Islamic laws stating the limits ordained by Allah and including the deterrent punishments for serious crimes)
S: (n) procession (the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation) "processions were forbidden"
S: (n) string (a collection of objects threaded on a single strand)
S: (n) wardrobe (collection of clothing belonging to one person)
S: (n) wardrobe (collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company)
S: (n) population, universe ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn) "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
S: (n) armamentarium (the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine)
S: (n) backlog (an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services))
S: (n) battery (a collection of related things intended for use together) "took a battery of achievement tests"
S: (n) block (a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit) "he reserved a large block of seats"; "he held a large block of the company's stock"
S: (n) book, rule book (a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made) "they run things by the book around here"
S: (n) book (a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game)
S: (n) bottle collection (a collection of bottles) "her bottle collection is arranged on glass shelves in the window"
S: (n) bunch, lot, caboodle (any collection in its entirety) "she bought the whole caboodle"
S: (n) collage (any collection of diverse things) "a collage of memories"
S: (n) content, contents ((usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something) "he emptied the contents of his pockets"; "the two groups were similar in content"
S: (n) ensemble, tout ensemble (an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole)
S: (n) corpus (a collection of writings) "he edited the Hemingway corpus"
S: (n) crop (a collection of people or things appearing together) "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"
S: (n) tenantry (tenants of an estate considered as a group)
S: (n) findings (a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes)
S: (n) flagging (flagstones collectively) "there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place"
S: (n) flinders (bits and splinters and fragments) "it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage"
S: (n) pack (a complete collection of similar things)
S: (n) hand, deal (the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time) "I didn't hold a good hand all evening"; "he kept trying to see my hand"
S: (n) mass (an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people))
S: (n) combination (a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities)
S: (n) congregation (an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together) "a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph"; "a great congregation of birds flew over"
S: (n) hit parade (a collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kind)
S: (n) kludge (a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together))
S: (n) prosecution (the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant)
S: (n) planting (a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area) "the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner"
S: (n) signage (signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters)) "there will be signage displayed at each post"
S: (n) generally accepted accounting principles, GAAP (a collection of rules and procedures and conventions that define accepted accounting practice; includes broad guidelines as well as detailed procedures)
S: (n) South America (the nations of the South American continent collectively) "South America is an important market for goods from the United States"
S: (n) Oort cloud ((astronomy) a hypothetical huge collection of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto; perturbations (as by other stars) can upset a comet's orbit and may send it tumbling toward the sun)
S: (n) galaxy (a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people))
S: (n) galaxy, extragalactic nebula ((astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust) "`extragalactic nebula' is a former name for `galaxy'"
S: (n) fleet (a group of warships organized as a tactical unit)
S: (n) fleet (group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership)
S: (n) fleet (group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership)
S: (n) repertoire, repertory (a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule)
S: (n) repertory, repertoire (the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation) "the repertory of the supposed feats of mesmerism"; "has a large repertory of dialects and characters"
S: (n) vegetation, flora, botany (all the plant life in a particular region or period) "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"
S: (n) law, jurisprudence (the collection of rules imposed by authority) "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
S: (n) menagerie (a collection of live animals for study or display)
S: (n) data, information (a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn) "statistical data"
S: (n) ana (a collection of anecdotes about a person or place)
S: (n) mail, post (any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered) "your mail is on the table"; "is there any post for me?"; "she was opening her post"
S: (n) treasure (a collection of precious things) "the trunk held all her meager treasures"
S: (n) treasure trove (any collection of valuables that is discovered) "her book was a treasure trove of new ideas"; "mother's attic was a treasure trove when we were looking for antiques"
S: (n) trinketry (trinkets and other ornaments of dress collectively)
S: (n) smithereens (a collection of small fragments considered as a whole) "Berlin was bombed to smithereens"; "his hopes were dashed to smithereens"; "I wanted to smash him to smithereens"; "the toilet bowl ws blown to smithereens"
S: (n) Nag Hammadi, Nag Hammadi Library (a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism)
S: (n) Wise Men, Magi ((New Testament) the sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born; the Gospel According to Matthew says they were guided by a star and brought gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh; because there were three gifts it is usually assumed that there were three of them)
S: (n) jurisprudence, law, legal philosophy (the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do)
S: (n) law, practice of law (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"