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Vigilance Committee

Definition: Vigilance Committee

Vigilance Committee

Noun

1. A volunteer committee to maintain order where an efficient legal system does not exist.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Crosswords: Vigilance Committee

English words defined with "vigilance committee": vigilance man, vigilante, vigilantism. (references)
Specialty definitions using "vigilance committee": Fehm-gericht. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Vigilance Committee

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Books

  • California From The Conquest In 1846 To The Second Vigilance Committee In San Francisco (1856) (reference)

  • California: A Study of American Character: From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco (California Legacy Book) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Vigilance Committee

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Assassination of James King of William Surrender of Jas. P. Casey and Charles Cora to the vigilance committee, on Sunday, May 18th, 1856 / / Huestis.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Vigilance Committee

Language Translations for "vigilance committee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

自警団 (vigilante corps). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

じけい " (vigilante corps). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

igilancevay ommitteecay

   

Turkish

  

huzuru sağlamak için kurulan yasadışı örgüt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Alternative Orthography: Vigilance Committee


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 69 67 69 6C 61 6E 63 65      43 6F 6D 6D 69 74 74 65 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01101001 01100111 01101001 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101101 01101101 01101001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#105 &#103 &#105 &#108 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#101 &#32 &#67 &#111 &#109 &#109 &#105 &#116 &#116 &#101 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0069 0067 0069 006C 0061 006E 0063 0065      0043 006F 006D 006D 0069 0074 0074 0065 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5675737578678069712378179797586867171

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Translations: Modern
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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