A suffix that forms nouns.
1. An active verbal support for a cause or position.
2. The act of advocating, or speaking or writing, in support (of something).
1. The state of having been legally declared bankrupt.
2. Lack of resources; the complete lack of a particular quality, especially good or ethical qualities;
moral bankruptcy.
1. The office or rank of a captain.
2. A district or area administered by a captain.
3. The ability of a captain; captainship.
1. Government by the people; that form of government in which the sovereign power resides in the people as a whole, and is exercised either directly by them (as in the small republics of antiquity) or by officers elected by them.
In modern usage, often more vaguely denoting a social state in which everyone has equal rights, without hereditary or arbitrary differences of rank or privilege.
2. A state or community in which the government is vested in the people as a whole.
3. The free and equal right of every person to participate in a system of government, often practiced by electing representatives of the people by the people.
4. A country with a government which has been elected freely and equally by all its citizens.
5. The control of an organization by its members, who have a free and equal right to participate in decision-making processes.
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a domocracy the whores are us.
From a Parliment of Whores by P.J. O’Rourke
(New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991), p. 233.
1. A period of specialized training in clinical medicine or surgery in a hospital on completion of an internship.
2. Usually official place of residence or a condition or period of residence.
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