ETYM Cf. French arrangement.
1. An orderly grouping (of things or persons).
2. An organized structure for arranging or classifying; SYN. organization, organisation, system.
3. Something made by arranging ordered parts together; the result of arranging.
4. The act of arranging a piece of music; SYN. arranging.
ETYM Old Eng. bogett, bouget, French bougette bag, wallet, dim. of Old Fren. boge, bouge, leather bag. Related to Budge, Bouget.
1. A sum of money allocated for a particular purpose.
2. A summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them.
Estimate of income and expenditure for some future period, used in financial planning. National budgets set out estimates of government income and expenditure and generally include projected changes in taxation and growth.
Interim budgets are not uncommon, in particular, when dramatic changes in economic conditions occur. Governments will sometimes construct a budget deficit or surplus as part of macroeconomic policy.
ETYM Cf. French classification.
In biology, the arrangement of organisms into a hierarchy of groups on the basis of their similarities in biochemical, anatomical, or physiological characters. The basic grouping is a species, several of which may constitute a genus, which in turn are grouped into families, and so on up through orders, classes, phyla (in plants, sometimes called divisions), to kingdoms.
1. A group of people or things arranged by class or category; SYN. categorization.
2. Restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people.
3. The basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories; SYN. categorization, sorting.
ETYM French disposition, dispositio, from disponere to dispose; dis- + ponere to place. Related to Position, Dispone.
1. A natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing.
2. One's usual mood; SYN. temperament.
ETYM Latin distributio: cf. French distribution.
1. An arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence.
2. The act of distributing or spreading or apportioning.
3. The commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer.
4. The spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume; SYN. dispersion.
ETYM French division, Latin divisio, from dividere. Related to Divide.
1. Separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart; SYN. partition, partitioning, segmentation, subdivision, sectionalization.
2. The act or process of dividing or splitting.
3. (Biology) A group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category.
4. (Botany) Taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum.
5. An administrative unit in government or business.
6. An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed.
7. Discord that splits a group; SYN. variance.
8. An army unit large enough to sustain combat.
9. A group of ships of similar type.
10. A unit of the US air force usually comprising two or more wings.
ETYM Late Lat. graduatio promotion to a degree: cf. French graduation division into degrees.
The successful completion of a program of study.
ETYM Old Eng. bogett, bouget, French bougette bag, wallet, dim. of Old Fren. boge, bouge, leather bag. Related to Budge, Bouget.
1. A sum of money allocated for a particular purpose.
2. A summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them.
Estimate of income and expenditure for some future period, used in financial planning. National budgets set out estimates of government income and expenditure and generally include projected changes in taxation and growth.
Interim budgets are not uncommon, in particular, when dramatic changes in economic conditions occur. Governments will sometimes construct a budget deficit or surplus as part of macroeconomic policy.