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Minister :: Minister (n.) One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs..

Negotiate :: Negotiate (v. i.) To treat with another respecting purchase and sale or some business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm..

Vestry :: Vestry (n.) A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry.

County :: County (n.) A circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; -- called also a shire. See Shire..

Guardian :: Guardian (v. t.) One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs..

Embarrass :: Embarrass (v. t.) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements..

Officious :: Officious (a.) Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.

Georgical :: Georgical (a.) Relating to agriculture and rural affairs.

Economy :: Economy (n.) Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy..

Straighten :: Straighten (v. t.) To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account..

Division :: Division (n.) One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.

Birlaw :: Birlaw (n.) A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law.

Off :: Off (a.) Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics..

Procuration :: Procuration (n.) The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy.

Intercourse :: Intercourse (n.) A commingling; intimate connection or dealings between persons or nations, as in common affairs and civilities, in correspondence or trade; communication; commerce; especially, interchange of thought and feeling; association; communion..

Astrology :: Astrology (n.) In its etymological signification, the science of the stars; among the ancients, synonymous with astronomy; subsequently, the art of judging of the influences of the stars upon human affairs, and of foretelling events by their position and aspects..

World :: World (n.) The customs, practices, and interests of men; general affairs of life; human society; public affairs and occupations; as, a knowledge of the world..

Look :: Look (n.) Hence; Appearance; aspect; as, the house has a gloomy look; the affair has a bad look..

Actor :: Actor (n.) One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer..

Jingo :: "Jingo (n.) A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs..

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