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51character — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. kind, class; nature, disposition, temperament, personality; part, role; sign, brand, stamp; figure, letter, hieroglyphic, ideograph, pictograph; informal, personage, eccentric, crank, original. See… …
52public corporation — Many of the well known public corporations of the post 1945 era were established to run the amenities and industries nationalised by the Attlee Government. Their general features were that the boards were ‘corporate’ (meaning that they had a… …
53public law — A general classification of law, consisting generally of constitutional, administrative, criminal, and international law, concerned with the organization of the state, the relations between the state and the people who compose it, the… …
54public corporation — A municipal or political corporation. A corporation with political powers. Phillips v Baltimore, 110 Md 431, 72 A 902. A corporation created for public purposes only, connected with the administration of the government, the interests and… …
55public law — 1. Also called public act, public statute. a law or statute of a general character that applies to the people of a whole state or nation. 2. a branch of law dealing with the legal relationships between the state and individuals and with the… …
56Public credit — Credit Cred it (kr[e^]d [i^]t), n. [F. cr[ e]dit (cf. It. credito), L. creditum loan, prop. neut. of creditus, p. p. of credere to trust, loan, believe. See {Creed}.] 1. Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust;… …
57public personage — A person who, by his accomplishments, fame, or mode of life, or by adopting a profession or calling which gives the public a legitimate interest in his doings, has rendered his affairs and his character matters of public interest, thereby… …
58character assassination — noun an attack intended to ruin someone s reputation • Syn: ↑assassination, ↑blackwash • Derivationally related forms: ↑assassinate (for: ↑assassination) • Hypernyms: ↑ …
59Public Surveillance Unit — The Public Surveillance Unit or PSU is a fictional institution in the Judge Dredd comic strip in 2000 AD . It was introduced in progs 954 and 959 (1995). Notable PSU characters in the comic strip are Judge Niles, its chief, and Judge Roffman, who …
60character assassination — noun Date: 1944 the slandering of a person usually with the intention of destroying public confidence in that person …
