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Definition: Mozambican |
MozambicanAdjective1. Of or relating to or located in Mozambique; "Mozambican towns". 2. Of or relating to the people of Mozambique; "Mozambican troops are at the border". Noun1. A native or inhabitant of Mozambique. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Inhabitant of Mozambique. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Swaziland | There were reports that Mozambican girls worked as prostitutes in the country. (references) |
Mozambique | An NGO, the Association to Support Mozambican Children (ASEM), operated 2 alternative-learning centers in Beira for more than 900 children who were not able to return to their regular schools after being expelled from their homes or because they had left school to work. (references) | |
Mozambique | Smaller NGO's also have formed, including the Association of Handicapped Military and Paramilitary Mozambicans, the Association of Blind and Visually Impaired Mozambicans (ACDVM), the Association of Mozambican Disabled Soldiers (ADEMIMO), the Association of Deaf Mozambicans (ASUMO), the Association of Demobilized War Veterans (AMODEC), and the Association of Disabled Divorced Women (AMODD). (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Mozambique | Funds for such payment had been deducted from their salaries by the East German government that then provided them to a Mozambican government representative, who then embezzled the money. (references) |
Economic History | Mozambique | Traditional Mozambican exports include cashews, shrimp, fish, copra, sugar, cotton, tea, and citrus fruits. (references) |
Mozambique | Political parties: Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO); Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO); numerous small parties. (references) | |
Human Rights | South Africa | Another Mozambican immigrant reported that a similar incident took place in 2000 in the West Rand area. (references) |
South Africa | On September 23, in Pretoria, officers from the Pretoria SAPS dog unit reportedly used their dogs to attack two Mozambican immigrants, Charles Ndlovu and Stanley Dluwayo. (references) | |
Portugal | According to Amnesty International, police allegedly detained and beat Candido Coelho at the Damaia PSP station in December 2000. Of Mozambican origin, Coelho apparently suffers from a mental disability. (references) | |
Minorities | Germany | In June 2000, three rightwing extremists beat to death Alberto Adriano, a Mozambican immigrant, as he walked home through a park at night in Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt. (references) |
Political Economy | Mozambique | The forces responsible for internal security under the Ministry of Interior include: The Criminal Investigation Police (PIC), the Mozambican National Police (PRM), and the Rapid Reaction Police (PIR). (references) |
Malawi | The country is landlocked, but improved rail service to the Mozambican deepwater port of Nacala, subsequent to the December 1999 privatization of Malawi Railways, lowered somewhat the share of transport costs for the country's imports. (references) | |
Women | Mozambique | A group of women's NGO's, including Women in Law and Development, Mozambican Women in Education, Women in Judicial Careers, and the FRELIMO-sponsored Mozambican Women's Organization, support the organization All Against Violence, which serves as a monitoring and educational group for problems of domestic violence and sexual abuse of women and children, including counseling of victims and mediating within families. (references) |
Worker Rights | Swaziland | The age of protection against sexual exploitation and the age of sexual consent are 16 years; however, there were reports that underage Mozambican girls worked as prostitutes in the country. (references) |
Mozambique | There are two trade union federations in the country: The Organization of Mozambican Workers (OTM), which formerly was affiliated with the FRELIMO party, and the Confederation of Free and Independent Unions of Mozambique (CONSILMO), which was formed by three unions that broke away from the OTM. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mozambican" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.62% of the time. "Mozambican" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.62% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "Mozambican"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Mozambikaans, Mozambikaan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | mozambikano, mozambika. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | mosambikanisch, Mosambikaner. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ozambicanmay mozambiqueño. (various references) мозамбікський. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Mozambican" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mozambiki. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-i-m-m-n-o-z" | |
-2 letters: ammoniac. | |
-3 letters: amboina, ammonia, ammonic, manioca. | |
-4 letters: amazon, ammino, anomic, azonic, banzai, bonaci, cabman, caiman, cambia, camion, maniac, manioc. | |
-5 letters: abaci, aboma, amain, amino, amnia, amnic, amnio, anima, azoic, bacon, baiza, banco, cabin, cobia, comma, macon, mamba, mambo, mania, manic, nizam, zamia, zombi. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 7A 61 6D 62 69 63 61 6E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- --.. .- -- -... .. -.-. .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01111010 01100001 01101101 01100010 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o z a m b i c a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 007A 0061 006D 0062 0069 0063 0061 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47819267796875696780 |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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