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ritual collapse: stereotyped behavior; any customary observance or practice; the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies; of or relating to or employed in social rites or rituals; "a ritual dance of Haiti"; "sedate little colonial tribe with its ritual tea parties"- Nadine Gordimer; of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals; "ritual killing"

workmanlike collapse: worthy of a good workman; "a competent job"; "the book is a workmanlike job with chronology and bibliography and index"

bondage collapse: sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners; the state of being under the control of another person; the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power; "he was in bondage to fear:; "he sought release from his bondage to Satan"; "a self freed from the bondage of time"

busywork collapse: active work of little value; "while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork"

convocation collapse: the act of convoking; a group gathered in response to a summons

politic collapse: smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the hostess averted a confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change of subject"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"; "affable, suave, moderate men...smugly convinced of their respectability" - Ezra Pound; marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; "it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels"; "a politic decision"; "a politic manager"; "a politic old scoundrel"; "a shrewd and politic reply"

artistic collapse: satisfying aesthetic standards and sensibilities; "artistic workmanship"; relating to or characteristic of art or artists; "his artistic background"

stakeout collapse: surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime)

tenure collapse: the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands; the term during which some position is held; give life-time employment to; "She was tenured after she published her book"

disservice collapse: an act intended to help that turns out badly; "he did them a disservice"

employable collapse: a person who is qualified and ready to work; physically and mentally capable of working at a regular job and available

ceremony collapse: any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way; "the ceremony of smelling the cork and tasting the wine"; "he makes a ceremony of addressing his golf ball"; "he disposed of it without ceremony"; the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion; "an inaugural ceremony"; a formal event performed on a special occasion; "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor"

valet collapse: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man"; serve as a personal attendant to

servitude collapse: state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment; "penal servitude"

permission collapse: approval to do something; "he asked permission to leave"

spying collapse: the act of keeping a secret watch for intelligence purposes; keeping a secret or furtive watch

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