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1: the total value of all income in a nation (wages and profits and interest and rents and pension payments) during a given period (usually 1 yr)

1: the law enforcement agency that is the research and development branch of the Department of Justice [syn: {NIJ}]

1: an agency in the Technology Administration that makes measurements and sets standards as needed by industry or government programs [syn: {NIST}]

1: an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; is the principal biomedical research agency of the f...

1: social insurance program in Britain; based on contributions from employers and employees; provides payments to unemployed and sick and retired people as well as medical services

1: a group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States Government; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence [syn: {Intelligence Communit...

1: an independent agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor unions [syn: {NRLB}]

1: a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs [syn: {statesman}, {solon}]

1: a Marxist terrorist group formed in 1963 by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution; responsible for a campaign of mass kidnappings and resistance to the government's effo...

1: a terrorist group formed in 1976 to work for Corsican independence; attacks on Corsica are aimed at sabotaging public infrastructure and symbols of colonialism [syn: {FLNC}]

1: the world's largest medical library [syn: {United States National Library of Medicine}, {U.S. National Library of Medicine}]

1: memorial consisting of a structure or natural landmark of historic interest; set aside by national government for preservation and public enjoyment

1: an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hur...

1: a tract of land declared by the national government to be public property

1: an agency of the Interior Department responsible for the National Parks

1: an intelligence agency in the United States Department of Defense that designs and builds and operates space reconnaissance systems to detect trouble spots worldwide and to monitor arms control agr...

1: a powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government [syn: {NRA}]

1: the United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign intelligence information [s...

1: a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security; supervises the Central Intelligence Agency [syn: {NSC}]

1: (United Kingdom) compulsory service in the military during peacetime

1: a form of socialism featuring racism and expansionism [syn: {Nazism}, {Naziism}]

1: relating to a form of socialism; "the national socialist party came to power in 1933" [syn: {Nazi}]

1: the political party founded in Germany in 1919 and brought to power by Hitler in 1933 [syn: {Nazi Party}]

1: an agency in the Technology Administration that is a primary resource for government-funded scientific and technical and engineering and business related information [syn: {NTIS}]

1: a government's policy controlling foreign trade [syn: {trade policy}]

1: an organization concerned to preserve historic monuments and buildings and places of historical interest or natural beauty; founded in 1895 and supported by endowment and private subscription [syn:...

1: a secret all-male organization begun in 1925 to foster nationalism in India's Hindus [syn: {Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh}]

1: the federal agency in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that is responsible for weather forecast and preparation of weather maps

1: the action of forming or becoming a nation [syn: {nationalization}] 2: the action of rendering national in character [syn: {nationalization}] 3: changing something from private to state ownership o...

1: make national in character or scope; "His heroic deeds were nationalized by the press" [syn: {nationalize}] 2: put under state control or ownership; "Mitterand nationalized the banks" [syn: {nation...

1: love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it [syn: {patriotism}] 2: the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other [ant: {multiculturalism}, {internationalis...

1: devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others; "nationalist aspirations"; "minor nationalistic differences" [syn:...

1: a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong [syn: {Taiwan}, {China}, {Republic of China}]

1: the leader of a nationalist movement

1: fanatically patriotic [syn: {chauvinistic}, {flag-waving(a)}, {jingoistic}, {ultranationalistic}, {superpatriotic}] 2: devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promotin...

1: the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization

1: the action of forming or becoming a nation [syn: {nationalisation}] 2: the action of rendering national in character [syn: {nationalisation}] 3: changing something from private to state ownership o...

1: put under state control or ownership; "Mitterand nationalized the banks" [syn: {nationalise}] [ant: {denationalize}, {denationalize}] 2: make national in character or scope; "His heroic deeds were ...

1: with regard to a nation taken as a whole; "a nationally uniform culture" 2: extending throughout an entire nation; "nationally advertised"; "it was broadcast nationwide" [syn: {nationwide}, {across...

1: an independent agency of the federal government responsible for the promotion of progress in science and engineering by supporting programs in research and education [syn: {NSF}]

1: occurring or extending throughout a country or nation; "the event aroused nationwide interest"; "a countrywide fund-raising campaign" [syn: {countrywide}] adv : extending throughout an entire natio...

1: being such by origin; "the native North American sugar maple"; "many native artists studied abroad" [ant: {foreign}] 2: belonging to one by birth; "my native land"; "one's native language" [ant: {a...

1: a member or descendant of any of the aboriginal peoples of Alaska [syn: {Alaska Native}, {Alaskan Native}]

1: of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages; "Native American religions"; "Indian arrowheads" [syn: {Indian}, {Amerind}, {Amerindic}] n : any member of the peoples living in ...

1: a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived [syn: {Aborigine}, {Abo}, {Aboriginal}, {Australian Aborigine}]

1: sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat; feeds on eucalyptus leaves and bark [syn: {koala}, {koala bear}, {kangaroo bear}, {Phascolarctos cinereus}]

1: tall Australian timber tree yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc [syn: {flindosa}, {flindosy}, {Flindersia australis}]

1: carnivorous arboreal catlike marsupials of Australia and Tasmania [syn: {Dasyurus viverrinus}]

1: small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes place in genus Styphelia [syn: {groundberry}, {ground-berry}, {cranberry heath}, {Ast...

1: erect deciduous shrub or tree to 10 feet with maroon-flushed flowers; New Zealand [syn: {konini}, {tree fuchsia}, {Fuchsia excorticata}]

1: a member or descendant of the indigenous Polynesian people who lived in the Hawaiian Islands

1: low spreading evergreen shrub of southern Australia having triangular to somewhat heart-shaped foliage and orange-yellow flowers followed by flat winged pods [syn: {common flat pea}, {Playlobium ob...

1: the country where you were born [syn: {fatherland}, {homeland}, {motherland}, {mother country}, {country of origin}]

1: the language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood

1: small Australian tree bearing edible dark purple fruit [syn: {Capparis mitchellii}]

1: red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam [syn: {quandong}, {quandang}, {quantong}]

1: tree bearing pear-shaped fruit with a thick woody epicarp [syn: {woody pear}, {Xylomelum pyriforme}]

1: small Australian tree bearing edible fruit resembling the pomegranate [syn: {Capparis arborea}]

1: a speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood; "native speakers of French"

1: an old name for sulfur [syn: {brimstone}, {native sulphur}]