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The current figurative meaning 'arrears of uncompleted work' is an Americanism from the 1930s which passed rapidly into British use. The original physical meaning 'a log placed at the back of a fire' dates from the 17c; in between is an earlier meaning 'a reserve supply', which extended in use to abstract things (for example, goodwill) and gave rise to the current meaning.

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stock|pile1 [ˈstɔkpaıl US ˈsta:k ] n a large supply of things that is kept ready for use in the future = ↑store stockpile of a stockpile of nuclear weapons stockpile 2 stockpile2 v [T] to keep adding to a supply of goods, weapons etc that you…

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GOD, NAMES OF

Various Hebrew terms are used for God in the Bible. Some of these are employed in both the generic and specific sense; others are used only as the personal name of the God of Israel. Most of these terms were employed also by the Canaanites, to…

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contention - Academic Dictionaries and …

Look at other dictionaries: contention — 1. (kon tan sion ; en poésie, de quatre syllabes) s. f. 1° Effort qu on fait pour exécuter quelque chose, ou pour parvenir à quelque but.

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contingency theory - Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Similarly, Lawrence and Lorsch (Organization and Environment, 1967) found, in a study of ten firms in three different industrial environments (plastics, food, containers) in the United States, that the degree of uncertainty in the three 'task sub-environments' of the firms (market, techno-economic, and scientific) was strongly related to their internal organizational arrangement.

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Heaven v. Pender

Heaven v Pender (1883) 11 QBD 503, Court of Appeal) was an English legal case.The case occurred when an owner of a dry dock supplied ropes which supported a stage slung over the side of a ship. The stage failed owing to the ropes having been…

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The current figurative meaning 'arrears of uncompleted work' is an Americanism from the 1930s which passed rapidly into British use. The original physical meaning 'a log placed at the back of a fire' dates from the 17c; in between is an earlier meaning 'a reserve supply', which extended in use to abstract things (for example, goodwill) and gave rise to the current meaning.

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Prevention of Cruelty to, and Protection of Children …

The United Kingdom 's Children's Charter of 1889 was the first Act of Parliament for the prevention of cruelty to children. It enabled the state to intervene, for the first time, in relations between parents and children. Police could arrest anyone found ill-treating a child, and enter a …

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Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v Nattrass

"Tesco Supermarkets v. Nattrass" [1972] AC 153 is a leading decision of the House of Lords on the "directing mind" theory of corporate liability.. This is a leading case on the Trade Descriptions Act 1968,(s.24(1) of the TDA) where Tesco relied upon the defence of the ‘act or omission of another person’ i.e. their store manager, to show that they had taken all reasonable precautions and ...

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diffusion - sociology_en.enacademic.com

Diffusion refers to the spread of cultural attributes from one culture to another through contact between different cultural groups. Diffusion theory developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in opposition to evolutionary theory, both being concerned with the origins of human culture. Diffusionists such as Robert Lowie (The History of Ethnological Theory, 1937) saw cultures as ...