Insurance company that is a member of a rating bureau . The insurer usually joins such an organization when its statistical experience in a given line of insurance is not […]

(BEA) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides important economic statistics including the gross domestic product of the United States.

A unit of the United States Department of Labor . It is the principal fact -finding agency for the U.S. government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.

A standard price per unit of insurance set by a state’s insurance rating bureau , the association of all the insurance companies authorized to write particular kinds of insurance in […]

A system in which the business of government is carried on in departments, each under the control of a chief, in contradistinction from a system in which the officers of […]

When a conflict over alternative policy proposals arises, they tend to be evaluated on the basis of the extent to which they imply an alteration in the relative power positions […]

One of three leadership styles described by Max Weber (1947), along with the charismatic leadership and traditional leadership styles. The bureaucratic leadership style is based on following normative rules, and […]

The combined organizational structure , procedures, protocols, and set of regulations in place to manage activity, usually in large organizations.

A term anciently applied to a castle or fortified place; a borough, (q. v.) Spelman.

A name anciently given to a dwelling-house in a borough town. Blount

A tenure by which lands in royal boroughs in Scotland were held of the sovereign. The service was watching and warding, and was done by the burgesses within the territory […]

In English law . One of the three species of free socage holdings; a tenure whereby houses and lands which were formerly the site of houses, in an ancient borough, […]

One who breaks into houses or inclosed places, as distinguished from one who committed robbery in the open country. Spelman.

In old English law . A term applied to a contribution towards the repair of castles or walls of defense, or of a borough.

In old English law . Inhabitants of a bmgus or borough; burgesses. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 6,

A word used in Domesday, signifying a breach of the peace in a town. Jacob.

The Big Mac Index is published by The Economist as an informal way of measuring the purchasing power parity (PPP) between two currencies and provides a test of the extent […]

In English law . An inhabitant or freeman of a borough or town; a person duly and legally admitted a member of a municipal corporation . Spelman; 3 Steph. Comm. […]

A roll, required by the St 5 & 6 Wm. IV. c. 76, to be kept in corporate towns or boroughs, of the names of burgesses entitled to certain new […]

See BOKOUGH ENGLISH.

Borough English, (q. v.)

A fine imposed on the community of a town, for a breach of the peace , etc.

In Saxon law. A court of justice held semi-annually by the bishop or lord in a burg, which the thanes were bound to attend without summons.

One who commits burglary. One who breaks into a dwelling-house in the night-time with intent to commit a felony. Wilson v. State, 34 Ohio St. 200; O’Connor v. Press Pub. […]

In pleading. A technical word which must be introduced into an indictment for burglary at common law . Lewis v. State, 16 Conn. 34; Reed v. State, 14 Tex. App. […]