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Definition: Direct Support |
Direct SupportNoun1. A mission requiring one force to support another specific force and authorizing it to answer directly the supported force's request for assistance. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Military | 1. The support provided by a unit not attached to or under command of the supported unit or formation, but required to give priority to the support required by that unit or formation. See also at priority call; in support. 2. In maritime usage, operations related to the protection of a specific force by other units, normally under the tactical control of that force. See also associated support; support. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Tajikistan | This has included direct support for the now-completed peace process, for demobilizing combatants, and for political party development and election administration. (references) |
Democratic Republic of Congo | The U.S. appointed an ambassador in November 1995. A charge had headed the Zaire/DROC since March 1993. There is no current U.S. bilateral aid to the Congo except for grants to NGOs in direct support for human rights and democratization projects. (references) | |
Romania | However, failure to address the problems of some of the largest loss-makers, coupled with the government's decision to extend new direct support to companies slated for restructuring, have resulted in the first half of 2001 in a continued growth of losses. (references) | |
Political Economy | SWITZERLAND | Legislation that took effect January 1, 1999, is gradually reducing direct government intervention in the market to set prices, but the high level of direct support for Swiss agricultural production will continue. (references) |
TURKEY | Historically, wheat and sugar are the main subsidized commodities, and Turkey exceeded its wheat export subsidy limits for grains in 2000. Due to lower production, Turkey is not expected to subsidize wheat exports in 2001. With the assistance of the World Bank, Turkey is shifting from production subsidies to a more efficient direct support payment system for farmers. (references) | |
Women | Andorra | The AAW actively promoted women's issues through information exchanges and limited direct support to those in need; the AAW collaborates with the Department of Public Health and Social Welfare to help battered women, single parent families, and others in need. (references) |
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Expression using "direct support": direct support artillery. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "direct support"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Dutch | Programma Directe Steun aan Opleidingsinstituten in Ontwikkelingslanden (Direct Support to Training Institutes in Developing Countries Programme). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | közvetlen támogatás (close support). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 直接"援 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ちょくせつしえ". (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | irectday upportsay usmerena podrška. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-o-p-p-r-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: outstripped, protreptics. | |
-3 letters: corruptest, descriptor, predictors, protreptic, retrodicts. | |
-4 letters: corrupted, courtiers, courtside, creditors, croupiers, croupiest, depictors, dipterous, directors, disrupter, distorter, outpriced, outprices, outriders, outstride, predictor, prescript, producers, protrudes, proustite, purported, recordist, reductors, retrodict, scripture, stricture, stroppier, superport, supported, supporter, toreutics, torridest, trisector, upstirred. | |
-5 letters: citreous, cordites, corrupts, cottiers, couriers, courters, courtier, creditor, critters, critturs. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-o-p-p-r-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+5 letters: photoreproductions. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 72 65 63 74 53 75 70 70 6F 72 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110010 01100101 01100011 01110100 00100000 01010011 01110101 01110000 01110000 01101111 01110010 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i r e c t   S u p p o r t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0072 0065 0063 0074 0053 0075 0070 0070 006F 0072 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387584716986253878282818486 |
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