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Home Dictionary Name: exertionExertion
The act of exerting or putting into motion or action the active exercise of any power or faculty an effort esp a laborious or perceptible effort as an exertion of strength or power an exertion of the limbs or of the mind it is an exertion for him to move to day...
Exertive
Having power or a tendency to exert using exertion...
Exertment
Exertion...
influence
influence 1 a : the act or power of producing an effect without any apparent exertion of force or direct exercise of command b : corrupt interference with authority for personal gain 2 : the power or capacity of causing an effect in indirect or intangible ways 3 : one that exerts influence in·flu·enc·er n under the influence : affected by alcohol or another intoxicant [was arrested for driving under the influence] ...
Labor
Physical toil or bodily exertion especially when fatiguing irksome or unavoidable in distinction from sportive exercise hard muscular effort directed to some useful end as agriculture manufactures and like servile toil exertion work...
Ampere
Ampere, means a unit of electric current and is the unvarying electric current which when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water, in accordance with the specification set out in Annexure I, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 of a gramme per second; the aforesaid unit is equivalent to the current which, in passing through the suspended coil of wire forming part of the instrument marked 'Government of India Ampere Standard Verified' when the suspended coil is in its sighted position, exerts a force which is exactly balanced by the force exerted by gravity in Calcutta on the counter balancing iridio-platinum weight of the said instrument. [Indian Electricity Rules, 1956, s. 2 (1) (c)]...
Obtained
Obtained, The word 'obtained' would indicate achievement by exertion in spite of opposition. Hence a dissolution of marriage obtained through the coercive process of civil court would be covered. The word 'obtained' may well be used in the sense of 'procured with effort and would certainly describe correctly a situation where something is achieved by a person through his exertion in spite of opposition from others. According to Webster, again, the word' obtain 'signifies: (a) to gain or attain possession or disposal of, usually by some planned action or method. (b) to bring about or call into being, etc., Mst. Zohara Khatoon v. Mohd. Ibrahim, AIR 1981 SC 1243 (1252): (1981) 2 SCC 509: (1981) 2 SCR 910. [Criminal PC, (2 of 1974), s. 125(1)]...
agency
agency pl: -cies 1 : the person or thing through which power is exerted or an end is achieved [death by criminal "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] 2 a : a consensual fiduciary relationship in which one party acts on behalf of and under the control of another in dealing with third parties ;also : the power of one in such a relationship to act on behalf of another NOTE: A principal is bound by and liable for acts of his or her agent that are within the scope of the agency. ac·tu·al agency : the agency that exists when an agent is in fact employed by a principal see also express agency and implied agency in this entry agency by estoppel : an agency that is not created as an actual agency by a principal and an agent but that is imposed by law when a principal acts in such a way as to lead a third party to reasonably believe that another is the principal's agent and the third party is injured by relying on and acting in accordance with that belief NOTE: A principal has...
agent
agent 1 : someone or something that acts or exerts power : a moving force in achieving some result 2 : a person guided or instigated by another in some action [where the heads of departments are the political…s of the executive, merely to execute the will of the president "Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)"] see also innocent agent 3 a : a person or entity (as an employee or independent contractor) authorized to act on behalf of and under the control of another in dealing with third parties see also agency, fiduciary relationship, subagent compare fiduciary, principal, servant apparent agent : an agent acting under an agency by estoppel bar·gain·ing agent : a labor union that represents the employees in a bargaining unit in negotiating with their employer through collective bargaining business agent : an agent that handles business affairs for another person or organization ;esp : a paid official of a union who carries on union business between the employ...
bind
bind bound [band] bind·ing 1 a : to make responsible for an obligation (as under a contract) [agents have the power to the insurer "R. I. Mehr"] b : to burden with an obligation [prevented married women from ing their property "J. H. Friedenthal et al."] 2 : to exert control over : constrain by legal authority [this court is bound by precedent] 3 : to bring (an insurance policy) into effect by an oral communication or a binder ...
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