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There are 17 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun villainy, 14 of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
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- Executive Agencies: A Guide for Departments
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Understand the characteristics of executive agencies and the processes for creating and reviewing them.
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This guidance includes the following topics:
•Chapter 1: What features define an Executive Agency model, and why have one?
•Chapter 2: When is an Executive Agency the appropriate model?
•Chapter 3: Governance Structure
•Chapter 4: Setting up a new Executive Agency
•Chapter 5: Reviewing Executive Agencies
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Check pronunciation: villainy. Definition of villainy noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A government agency or 1 Branches, state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government (bureaucracy) that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an administration.
Mar 3, 2017 · The policy activities of government agencies (a more precise definition follows below) constitute an important aspect of their autonomy vis-à-vis their political principals and we claim that there is a need for a more systematic, theoretically guided analysis on the role of agencies in policy-making.
- Tobias Bach, Birgitta Niklasson, Martin Painter
- 2012
Summary. The accountability of governments to their citizens is usually framed within a relationship of principal and agent in which the government, as agent, is obliged to answer to the citizens as agents.
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noun [ U ] uk / ˈvɪl.ə.ni / us / ˈvɪl.ə.ni / Add to word list. evil behaviour : Little does he realise what villainy and treachery lurk in the little town. His real villainy lay in his attitude to women. See. villainous. Fewer examples. Few novelists have been more convinced of the link between gambling and villainy.
