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Bureaucracy
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BureaucracyThe abuse of official influence in the affairs of government; corruption. This word has lately been adopted to signify that those persons who are employed in bureaus abuse their authority by intrigue to promote their own benefit, or that of friends, rather than the public good. The word is derived from the French.
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Abuse
Every thing which is contrary to good order established by usage.
Official
civil and canon laws. In the ancient civil law, the person who was the minister of, or attendant upon a magistrate, was called the official.
Influence
Authority, credit, ascendance.
Government
"natural and political law. The manner in which sovereignty is exercised in each state. There are three simple forms of government, the democratic, the aristocratic, and monarchical. But these three simple forms may be varied to infinity by the mixture and divisions of their different powers. Sometimes by the word government is understood the body of men, or the individual in the state, to whom is entrusted the executive power. It is taken in this sense when the government is spoken of in opposition to other bodies in the state.
Corruption
An act done with an intent to give some advantage inconsistent with official duty and the rights of others.
Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Employed
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to.perform certain duties.
Authority
Government. The right and power which an officer has in the exercise of a public function to compel obedience to his lawful commands.
Benefit
This word is used in the same sense as gain and profits.
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
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Bureau
A French word, which literally means a large writing table. It is used figuratively for the place where business is transacted: it has been borrowed by us, and used in nearly the same sense; as, the bureau of the secretary of state.
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Bullion
In its usual acceptation, is uncoined gold or silver, in bars, plates, or other masses.
Bunker pollution convention
The International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage, adopted at London on March 23, 2001, not yet in force.
Buoy
A piece of wood, or an empty barrel, floating on the water, to show the place where it is shallow, to indicate the danger there is to navigation.
Burden of proof
This phrase is employed to signify the duty of proving the facts in dispute on an issue raised between the parties in a cause.
Bureau
A French word, which literally means a large writing table. It is used figuratively for the place where business is transacted: it has been borrowed by us, and used in nearly the same sense; as, the bureau of the secretary of state.
Bureaucracy
Burgage
English law. A species of tenure in socage; it is where the king or other person is lord of an ancient borough, in which the tenements are held by a rent certain.
Burgess
A magistrate of a borough; generally, the chief officer of the corporation, who performs, within the borough, the same kind of duties which a mayor does in a city. In England, the word is sometimes applied to all the inhabitants of a borough, who are called burgesses sometimes it signifies the representatives of a borough in parliament.
Burgh
A borough; a castle or town.
Burglar
One who commits a burglary.
Burglariously
Pleadings. This is a technical word, which must be introduced into an indictment for burglary; no other word will answer the same purpose, nor will any circumlocution be sufficient.
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Abuse
Every thing which is contrary to good order established by usage.
Official
civil and canon laws. In the ancient civil law, the person who was the minister of, or attendant upon a magistrate, was called the official.
Influence
Authority, credit, ascendance.
Government
"natural and political law. The manner in which sovereignty is exercised in each state. There are three simple forms of government, the democratic, the aristocratic, and monarchical. But these three simple forms may be varied to infinity by the mixture and divisions of their different powers. Sometimes by the word government is understood the body of men, or the individual in the state, to whom is entrusted the executive power. It is taken in this sense when the government is spoken of in opposition to other bodies in the state.
Corruption
An act done with an intent to give some advantage inconsistent with official duty and the rights of others.
Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Employed
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to.perform certain duties.
Authority
Government. The right and power which an officer has in the exercise of a public function to compel obedience to his lawful commands.
Benefit
This word is used in the same sense as gain and profits.
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Bureau
A French word, which literally means a large writing table. It is used figuratively for the place where business is transacted: it has been borrowed by us, and used in nearly the same sense; as, the bureau of the secretary of state.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Bullion
In its usual acceptation, is uncoined gold or silver, in bars, plates, or other masses.
Bunker pollution convention
The International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage, adopted at London on March 23, 2001, not yet in force.
Buoy
A piece of wood, or an empty barrel, floating on the water, to show the place where it is shallow, to indicate the danger there is to navigation.
Burden of proof
This phrase is employed to signify the duty of proving the facts in dispute on an issue raised between the parties in a cause.
Bureau
A French word, which literally means a large writing table. It is used figuratively for the place where business is transacted: it has been borrowed by us, and used in nearly the same sense; as, the bureau of the secretary of state.
Bureaucracy
Burgage
English law. A species of tenure in socage; it is where the king or other person is lord of an ancient borough, in which the tenements are held by a rent certain.
Burgess
A magistrate of a borough; generally, the chief officer of the corporation, who performs, within the borough, the same kind of duties which a mayor does in a city. In England, the word is sometimes applied to all the inhabitants of a borough, who are called burgesses sometimes it signifies the representatives of a borough in parliament.
Burgh
A borough; a castle or town.
Burglar
One who commits a burglary.
Burglariously
Pleadings. This is a technical word, which must be introduced into an indictment for burglary; no other word will answer the same purpose, nor will any circumlocution be sufficient.
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