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The definition of the word has at times been disputed, as some people have attempted to use lower-case métis in the archaic sense of having a single, distant Indigenous ancestor or being in some other way "mixed".
In the United States "special needs" is a legal term applying in foster care, derived from the language in the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. It is a diagnosis used to classify children as needing more services than those children without special needs who are in the foster care system.
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, [22] are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies. [23] [24] [25] British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia was founded in 1859 [1] by William and Robert Chambers of Edinburgh and became one of the most important English language encyclopaedias of the 19th and 20th centuries, developing a reputation for accuracy and scholarliness that was reflected in other works produced by the Chambers publishing company.
Genocide definitions include many scholarly and international legal definitions of genocide, [1] a word coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1944. [2] The word is a compound of the ancient Greek word γένος (génos, "genus", or "kind") and the Latin word caedō ("kill").
The precise definition of the term "child pornography" varies by jurisdictions and there is no consensus in international law regarding the precise meaning of the word. [ 5 ] [ 4 ] In the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court has defined child pornography as material that " visually depicts sexual conduct by children below a specified age". [ 10 ]
A social group exhibits some degree of social cohesion and is more than a simple collection or aggregate of individuals, such as people waiting at a bus stop, or people waiting in a line. Characteristics shared by members of a group may include interests , values , representations , ethnic or social background, and kinship ties.
Merriam-Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries.It is the oldest dictionary publisher in the United States.