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collaboration collapse: act of working jointly; "they worked either in collaboration or independently"; act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country

teamwork collapse: cooperative work done by a team (especially when it is effective); "it will take money, good planning and, above all, teamwork"

litigation collapse: a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights

behind collapse: in or to or toward the rear; "he followed behind"; "seen from behind, the house is more imposing than it is from the front"; "the final runners were far behind"; remaining in a place or condition that has been left or departed from; "when he died he left much unfinished work behind"; "left a large family behind"; "the children left their books behind"; "he took off with a squeal of tires and left the other cars far behind"; in debt; "he fell behind with his mortgage payments"; "a month behind in the rent"; "a company that has been run behindhand for years"; "in arrears with their utility bills"; in or into an inferior position; "fell behind in his studies"; "their business was lagging behind in the competition for customers"; of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind"

episode collapse: a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series; a part of a broadcast serial; a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events

mood collapse: verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

procedure collapse: a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings; a particular course of action intended to achieve a result; "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error"

lagging collapse: used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat

prosecution collapse: the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior; the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant

motif collapse: a design that consists of recurring shapes or colors; a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music

symbiosis collapse: the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other

synchronism collapse: the relation that exists when things occur at the same time; "the drug produces an increased synchrony of the brain waves"

continuity collapse: the property of a continuous and connected period of time; a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot; uninterrupted connection or union

background collapse: (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear; a person's social heritage: previous experience or training; "he is a lawyer with a sports background"; information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem; "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"; the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"; relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation; "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"; extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured; "they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals"; understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry"

hindrance collapse: the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding; any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome; something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

verdict collapse: (law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision; can be used in formulating a judgment

denouement collapse: the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work; the outcome of a complex sequence of events

coincidence collapse: the quality of occupying the same position or area in space; "he waited for the coincidence of the target and the cross hairs"; an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental

proceeding collapse: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked

duet collapse: a musical composition for two performers; two performers or singers who perform together

improvisation collapse: an unplanned expedient; a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation)

backward collapse: directed or facing toward the back or rear; "a backward view"; (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature; "a backward lover"; retarded in intellectual development; in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal; "it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'"; "the child put her jersey on backward"

recognition collapse: designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body; "he was unable to make his motion because he couldn't get recognition by the chairman"; the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering; "a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces"; "experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer"; an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid; "the recognition of the Rio Grande as a boundary between Mexico and the United States"; approval; "give her recognition for trying"; "he was given credit for his work"; "give her credit for trying"; "the credits were given at the end of the film"; the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country; "territorial disputes were resolved in Guatemala's recognition of Belize in 1991"; (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape; "molecular recognition drives all of biology, for instance, hormone and receptor or antibody-antigen interactions or the organization of molecules into larger biologically active entities"; the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged; "the partners were delighted with the recognition of their work"; "she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own"

navel collapse: scar where the umbilical cord was attached; the center point or middle of something

methodology collapse: the system of methods followed in a particular discipline; the branch of philosophy that analyzes the principles and procedures of inquiry in a particular discipline

activism collapse: a policy of taking direct and militant action to achieve a political or social goal

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