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science and technology directorate

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Science and Technology Directorate. The division of the Department of Homeland Security responsible for coordinating research and development, including preparing for and responding to terrorist threats involving weapons of mass destruction. • The Directorate also works with the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Countermeasures Program and the Environmental Measurements Lab in the Department of Energy, […]

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free

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free, adj. 1. Having legal and political rights; enjoying political and civil liberty (a free citizen) (a free populace). 2. Not subject to the constraint or domination of another; enjoying personal freedom; emancipated (a free person). 3. Characterized by choice, rather than by compulsion or constraint (free will). 4. Unburdened (the land was free of

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chase

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Hist. A franchise granted by the Crown empowering the grantee to keep, within a certain district, animals for hunting, i.e., the objects of the chase. • This franchise was also known as a free chase to contrast it with a chase royal — a chase held by the Crown.

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iter

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iter (I-t[schwa]r orit-[schwa]r), n. [Latin] 1. Roman law. A rural servitude that allowed the holder to walk or ride on horseback (but not drive a draft animal) through another’s land. — Also termed servitus itineris (s[ schwa]r-vi-t[schwa]s I-tin-[schwa]r-is). Cf. ACTUS(3); VIA(2). 2. Hist. A journey; esp., a circuit made by an eyre justice. See EYRE.

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pressure group

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pressure group 压力团体 一种团体或组织，不断向政府施加影响和压力，要求重视其观点并制定符合其利益和观点的法律或采取相应的行政措施，如工会大会〔Trades Union Congress〕及所属工会、英国工业联合会〔Confederation of British Industry〕、英国医学会〔Birtish Medical Association〕、皇家防止虐待动物协会〔Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals〕等。

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ejusdem generis

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ejusdem generis (ee-j[schwa]s-d[schwa]m jen-[schwa]-ris also ee-joos- or ee-yoos-). [Latin “of the same kind or class”] A canon of construction that when a general word or phrase follows a list of specifics, the general word or phrase will be interpreted to include only items of the same type as those listed. • For example, in the

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