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law noun
plural laws
Definition of law (Entry 1 of 6)
1a(1): a binding custom or practice of a community : a rule of conduct or action prescribed (see PRESCRIBE sense 1a) or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority
(2): the whole body of such customs, practices, or rules
The courts exist to uphold, interpret, and apply the law.
(3): COMMON LAW
b(1): the control brought about by the existence or enforcement of such law
(2): the action of laws considered as a means of redressing wrongs
developed the habit of going to law over the slightest provocation
— H. A. Overstreet
(3): the agency of or an agent of established law
When he saw that the fighting was escalating, he called in the law.
c: a rule or order that it is advisable or obligatory to observe
a law of self-preservation
d: something compatible with or enforceable by established law
The decrees were judged not to be law and were therefore rescinded.
e: CONTROL, AUTHORITY
The child submits to no law.
2aoften capitalized : the revelation of the will of God set forth in the Old Testament
bcapitalized : the first part of the Jewish scriptures : PENTATEUCH, TORAH
— see BIBLE TABLE
3: a rule of construction or procedure
freedom noun
free·dom | \ ˈfrē-dəm \
Definition of freedom
1: the quality or state of being free: such as
a: the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action
b: liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another : INDEPENDENCE
c: the quality or state of being exempt or released usually from something onerous
freedom from care
d: unrestricted use
gave him the freedom of their home
e: EASE, FACILITY
spoke the language with freedom
f: the quality of being frank, open, or outspoken
answered with freedom
g: improper familiarity
h: boldness of conception or execution
incrementalism noun
in·cre·men·tal·ism | \ ˌiŋ-krə-ˈmen-tə-ˌli-zəm \
Definition of incrementalism
: a policy or advocacy of a policy of political or social change by degrees :
pandemic adjective
pan·dem·ic | \ pan-ˈde-mik \
Definition of pandemic (Entry 1 of 2)
1: occurring over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affecting a significant proportion of the population
pandemic malaria
The 1918 flu was pandemic and claimed millions of lives.
2: characterized by very widespread growth or extent : EPIDEMIC entry 1 sense 3
a problem of pandemic proportions
pandemic noun
plural pandemics
Definition of pandemic (Entry 2 of 2)
1: an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affects a significant proportion of the population : a pandemic outbreak of a disease
a global pandemic
Influenza pandemics seem to strike every few decades and to kill by the million—at least 1m in 1968; perhaps 100m in the "Spanish" flu of 1918-19.
— The Economist
2: an outbreak or product of sudden rapid spread, growth, or development : EPIDEMIC entry 2 sense 2
We have been talking about the pandemic of racism for centuries.
endemic
adjective Also en·dem·i·cal .
natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous:
endemic folkways;
countries where high unemployment is endemic.
belonging exclusively or confined to a particular place:
a fever endemic to the tropics.
(of a disease) persisting in a population or region, generally having settled to a relatively constant rate of occurrence:
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 may never disappear, but could become endemic like HIV.
vaccine
[ vak-seen or, especially British, vak-seen, -sin ]
noun
any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
the virus of cowpox, used in vaccination, obtained from pox vesicles of a cow or person.
a software program that helps to protect against computer viruses, as by detecting them and warning the user.
cdc definition a vaccination
