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

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

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

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"

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

self-determination collapse: determination of one's own fate or course of action without compulsion

tidy collapse: receptacle that holds odds and ends (as sewing materials); marked by good order and cleanliness in appearance or habits; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind"; put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!"

groom collapse: a man who has recently been married; a man participant in his own marriage ceremony; care for one's external appearance; "He is always well-groomed"

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

counterintelligence collapse: intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism

espionage collapse: the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets

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

third degree collapse: interrogation often accompanied by torture to extort information or a confession

wagon collapse: any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by a horse or tractor; a child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting

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"

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

corps collapse: an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support; a body of people associated together; "diplomatic corps"

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

nestle collapse: position comfortably; "The baby nestled her head in her mother's elbow"; lie in a sheltered position; "The little cottage nestles in the forest"

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

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