| Main Entry: | transferal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grant |
Synonyms: |
admission, allocation, allotment, alms, appropriation, assignment, assistance, award, benefaction, bequest, boon, bounty, charity, concession, contribution, conveyance, dole, donation, endowment, fellowship, gratuity, handout, lump, present, privilege, reward, scholarship, stipend, subsidy, transfer |
| Main Entry: | delegation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assignment of responsibility |
Synonyms: |
appointment, apportioning, authorization, charge, commissioning, committal, consigning, consignment, conveyance, conveying, deputation, deputization, deputizing, devolution, entrustment, giving over, installation, investiture, mandate, nomination, ordination, reference, referring, relegation, sending away, submittal, submitting, transferal, transference, transferring, trust |
| Notes: | a delegation differs from a legation in that the members of a delegation are usually not charged with a specific mission but merely with the overall task of representing the interests of a body of people, often at a conference during an assembly's regular session; a legate usually acts alone while a delegate acts as part of a group |
Antonyms: |
keeping |
| Main Entry: | movement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | motion, activity |
Synonyms: |
act, action, advance, agitation, alteration, change, changing, deed, development, displacement, dynamism, evolution, evolving, exercise, flight, flow, flux, gesture, journey, journeying, locomotion, maneuver, migration, mobility, motility, movableness, move, moving, operation, operativeness, passage, progress, progression, regression, roaming, shift, shifting, steps, stir, stirring, transferal, transit, translating, transplanting, undertaking, velocity, voyaging, wandering |
Antonyms: |
cessation, halt, inaction, inactivity, pause, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | movement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
brachiating, catabatic, circumambient, coxinutant, cursorial, dextrosinistral, digitigrade, drawing, erratic, feirie, formicating, gestic, glad, in motion, irpe, irreptitious, laterigrade, left, mercurial, mobile, motile, motive, motory, movable, moving, murgeoning, nomadic, paradromic, pedestrious, pinnigrade, proal, projectile, pronograde, propelled, propelling, propulsive, recoiling, rectigrade, reptant, restless, shanks', sinistrodextral, subsultive, sure, transitional, unquiet, vermigrade, viaggiatory, wandle
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