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#690. Agent.-- N. doer

• Created Agent Doer page March 6 2017

#691. Workshop. -- N. workshop

• workhouse

• workplace

• shop

• place of

• business

• manufactory

• mill

• plant

• works

• factory

• cabinet

• studio;

• office

• branch office bureau

• atelier

• hive[specific types of workplace: list]

• hive of industry

• nursery;

• hothouse

• hotbed

• kitchen

• mint

• forge

• loom

• dock

• dockyard;

• armory

• laboratory

• lab

• research institute

• refinery;

• cannery

• power plant

• beauty parlor

• beehive

• bindery

• forcing pit

• slip

• yard

• wharf

• foundry

• furnace

• vineyard

• crucible

• alembic

• caldron

• matrix

• Adj. at work

• at the office

• at the shop

• working

• 2. Complex Voluntary Action

#692. Conduct. -- N. conduct[actions of an individual agent];

• behavior

• deportment

• comportment

• carriage

• demeanor

• guise

• bearing

• manner

• observance

• dealing

• transaction

• business

• tactics

• game

• game plan

• policy

• polity

• generalship

• statesmanship

• seamanship

• strategy

• plan

• management

• husbandry

• housekeeping

• housewifery

• stewardship

• menage;

• regime

• economy

• economics

• political economy

• government

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• execution

• manipulation

• treatment

• campaign

• career

• life

• course

• walk

• race

• record

• course of conduct

• line of conduct

• line of action

• line of

• proceeding

• role

• process

• ways

• practice

• procedure

• modus operandi

• MO

• method of operating

• method

• path

• V. transact[cause to occur]

• execute

• despatch

• dispatch

• proceed

• with

• discharge

• carry on

• carry through

• carry out

• carry into effect

• put

• into effect

• work out

• go through

• get through

• enact

• put into practice;

• do

• officiate

• bear oneself

• behave oneself

• comport oneself

• demean oneself

• carry

• oneself

• conduct oneself

• acquit oneself

• run a race

• lead a life

• play a game

• take a course

• adopt a course;

• steer one's course

• shape one's course

• play one's paint

• play one's cards

• shift for oneself

• paddle one's own canoe

• bail one's own boat

• conduct

• manage

• supervise

• participate

• deal with

• have to do with

• treat

• handle a case

• take steps

• take

• measures

• Adj. conducting

• businesslike

• practical

• executive

#693. Direction. -- N. direction

• management

• government

• conduct

• legislation

• regulation

• guidance;

• bossism [U.S.]

• legislature

• steerage

• pilotage

• reins

• reins of

• government

• helm

• rudder

• needle

• compass

• guiding star

• load star

• lode

• star

• pole star

• cynosure

• supervision

• superintendence

• surveillance

• oversight

• eye of the

• master

• control

• charge

• board of control

• command

• (authority) 737

• premiership

• senatorship

• director

• chair

• portfolio

• statesmanship

• statecraft

• ministry

• ministration

• administration

• stewardship

• agency

• [person who directs] director

• V. direct

• manage

• govern

• conduct

• order

• prescribe

• cut out work

• for

• bead

• lead

• lead the way

• show the way

• take the lead

• lead on;

• regulate

• guide

• steer

• pilot

• tackle

• [intransitive] take the helm

• be at the helm

• have the reins

• handle

• the reins

• hold the reins

• take the reins

• drive

• tool

• superintend

• supervise

• overlook

• control

• keep in order

• look after

• see to

• legislate for

• administer

• have

• the care of

• have the charge of

• be in charge of

• have charge of

• take the

• direction

• boss

• boss one around

• pull the strings

• pull the wires

• rule

• have the direction

• hold office

• hold the portfolio;

• preside

• preside at the board

• take the chair

• occupy the chair

• be in the

• chair

• pull the stroke oar

• Adj. directing

• hegemonic

• Adv. at the helm

• at the head of

#694. Director. -- N. director

• manager

• governor

• rector

• comptroller

• superintendent

• supervisor

• straw boss

• intendant

• overseer

• husband

• inspector

• visitor

• ranger

• surveyor

• moderator

• monitor

• taskmaster

• master

• leader

• ringleader

• demagogue

• corypheus

• conductor

• bellwether

• agitator;

• collector

• file leader

• guiding star

• adviser

• guide

• (information) 5

• pilot

• helmsman

• steersman

• wire-

• puller

• driver

• whip

• Jehu

• charioteer

• coachman

• carman

• cabman

• postilion

• muleteer

• teamster

• whipper in

• head

• head man

• head center

• boss

• principal

• president

• speaker;

• chair

• chairman

• chairwoman

• chairperson

• captain

• superior

• mayor

• vice president

• prime minister

• premier

• vizier

• grand vizier

• officer

• functionary

• minister

• official

• bureaucrat

• man in office

• Jack in office

• office bearer

• person in

• authority

• statesman

• strategist

• legislator

• lawgiver

• politician

• statist|!

• Minos

• Draco

• arbiter

• boss [U.S.]

• political dictator

• board

• secretary

• secretary of state

• Reis Effendi

• vicar

• steward

• factor

• agent

• bailiff

• middleman

• foreman

• clerk of

• works

• factotum

• seneschal

• housekeeper

• shepherd

• croupier

• proctor

• procurator

• Adv. ex officio

#695. Advice. -- N. advice

• counsel

• adhortation|

• word to the wise;

• suggestion

• submonition|

• recommendation

• advocacy

• advisement

• exhortation

• expostulation

• admonition

• guidance

• instruction

• charge

• injunction

• Governor's

• message

• President's message

• King's message

• Queen's speech

• message

• speech from the throne

• adviser

• prompter

• counsel

• counselor

• monitor

• mentor

• Nestor

• magnus

• senator

• teacher

• guide

• manual

• chart

• physician

• doctor

• leech|!

• arbiter

• reference

• consultation

• conference

• pourparler

• V. advise

• counsel

• give advice

• give counsel

• give a piece of

• suggest

• prompt

• recommend

• prescribe

• advocate

• exhort

• enjoin

• enforce

• charge

• instruct

• call

• call upon

• dictate

• expostulate

• admonish

• advise with

• lay heads together

• consult together

• compare notes

• hold

• a council

• deliberate

• be closeted with

• confer

• consult

• refer to

• call in

• take advice

• follow advice

• be

• advised by

• have at one's elbow

• take one's cue from

• Adj. recommendatory

• hortative

• dehortatory

• admonitory

• Int. go to!

• Phr. "give every man thine ear but few thy voice" [Hamlet]

• "I pray

• thee cease thy counsel" [Much Ado About Nothing]

• "my guide

• philosopher

• and friend" [Pope]

• "'twas good advice and meant

• my son be good" [Crabbe];

• verbum sat sapienti [Latin: a word to the wise is sufficient]

• vive memor

• leti[Lat]

• "we

• ask advice but we mean approbation" [Colton]

#696. Council. -- N. council

• committee

• subcommittee

• comitia[Lat]

• court

• chamber

• cabinet

• board

• bench

• staff

• senate

• senatus[Lat]

• parliament

• chamber of deputies

• directory

• reichsrath[Ger]

• rigsdag

• cortes[Sp]

• junta

• divan

• sanhedrim

• Amphictyonic

• duma[Russ]

• house of representatives

• legislative assembly

• legislative council

• volksraad[Ger]

• consistory

• chapter

• syndicate

• court of appeal

• 96

• board of control

• board of works

• vestry

• county council

• local board

• audience chamber

• council chamber

• state chamber

• cabinet council

• privy council

• cockpit

• convocation

• synod

• congress

• convention

• diet

• states-general

• [formal gathering of members of a council: script] assembly

• caucus

• conclave

• clique

• conventicle

• meeting

• sitting

• seance

• conference

• convention

• exhibition

• session

• palaver

• pourparler

• house;

• quorum

• council fire [N.Am.]

• powwow [U.S.]

• primary [U.S.]

• meeting

• assemblage

• [person who is member of a council] member

• senator

• member of

• parliament

• M.P

• councilor

• representative of the people

• assemblyman

• congressman

• councilman

• councilwoman

• alderman

• freeholder

• V. assemble

• gather together

• meet (assemblage)

• confer

• caucus

• hold council

• huddle [coll.]

• Adj. senatorial

• congressional

• parliamentary;

• legislative

• law-making

• regulatory

• deliberative

#697. Precept. -- N. precept

• direction

• instruction

• charge;

• prescript

• prescription

• recipe

• receipt

• golden rule

• maxim

• rule

• canon

• law

• code

• corpus juris[Lat]

• lex scripta[Lat]

• act

• statute

• rubric

• stage direction

• regulation

• form

• formula

• formulary;

• technicality

• canon law

• norm

• order

#698. Skill. -- N. skill

• skillfulness

• address

• dexterity

• dexterousness

• adroitness

• expertness

• proficiency

• competence

• technical competence

• craft

• facility

• knack

• trick

• sleight

• mastery

• mastership

• excellence

• ambidexterity

• sleight of hand

• seamanship

• airmanship

• marksmanship

• horsemanship

• rope-dancing

• accomplishment

• acquirement

• attainment

• art

• science

• technicality

• technology

• practical knowledge

• technical knowledge

• knowledge of the world

• world wisdom

• tact

• mother

• wit

• discretion

• finesse

• craftiness

• management

• self-help

• cleverness

• talent

• ability

• ingenuity

• capacity

• parts

• talents

• faculty

• endowment

• forte

• turn

• gift

• genius

• intelligence

• sharpness

• readiness

• invention

• aptness

• aptitude

• turn for

• capacity for

• genius for

• felicity

• capability

• curiosa

• felicitas[Lat]

• qualification

• habilitation

• proficient

• masterpiece

• tour de force

• good

• stroke

• V. be skillful

• excel in

• be master of

• have a turn for

• n

• know what's what

• know a hawk from a handsaw

• know what one is about

• know on which side one's bread is buttered

• know what's o'clock

• have cut

• one's eye teeth

• have cut one's wisdom teeth

• see one's way

• see where the wind lies

• see which way the wind blows;

• have all one's wits about one

• have one's hand in

• scire

• look after the main chance

• cut one's coat according to one's cloth;

• live by one's wits

• exercise one's discretion

• feather the oar

• sail near

• the wind

• stoop to conquer

• play one's cards well

• play

• one's best card

• hit the right nail on the head

• put the saddle on the

• right horse

• take advantage of

• make the most of

• profit by &e. (use) 67

• make a

• hit

• make a virtue of necessity

• make hay while the sun

• shines

• Adj. skillful

• dexterous

• adroit

• expert

• apt

• handy

• quick

• deft

• ready

• gain

• slick

• smart

• proficient

• good at

• up to

• at

• home in

• master of

• a good hand at

• au fait

• thoroughbred

• masterly

• crack

• accomplished

• conversant

• experienced

• practiced

• skilled

• hackneyed

• up in

• well up in

• in

• practice

• in proper cue

• competent

• efficient

• qualified

• capable

• fitted

• fit for

• up to the mark

• trained

• initiated

• prepared

• primed

• finished

• clever

• cute

• able

• ingenious

• felicitous

• gifted

• talented

• endowed;

• inventive

• shrewd

• sharp

• on the ball

• cunning

• alive to

• up to snuff

• not to be caught with chaff;

• discreet

• neat-handed

• fine-fingered

• nimble-fingered

• ambidextrous

• sure-

• footed

• cut out for

• fitted for

• technical

• artistic

• scientific

• shipshape

• workman-

• like

• business-like

• statesman-like

• Adv. skillfully

• well

• artistically

• with skill

• with consummate skill

• secundum artem[Lat]

• suo Marte

• to the best of one's

• abilities

• Phr. ars celare artem[Lat]

• artes honorabit[Lat]

• celui qui veut

• c'est une grande habilite que de savoir cacher

• expertus metuit [Lat][Horace]

• es bildet ein Talent sich

• in der Stille sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt[Ger]

• "heart to

• conceive the understanding to direct

• or the hand to execute" [Junius]

• if

• you have lemons

• make lemonade

#699. Unskillfulness. -- N. unskillfulness

• want of skill

• 6

• incompetence

• inability

• infelicity

• inexperience

• disqualification

• quackery

• folly

• stupidity

• indiscretion

• thoughtlessness

• sabotage

• mismanagement

• misconduct

• maladministration

• misrule

• misgovernment

• misapplication

• misdirection

• misfeasance

• petticoat

• government

• absence of rule

• rule of thumb

• bungling

• failure

• screw loose

• too many cooks

• blunder

• act of folly

• botch

• bad job

• sad work

• sprat sent out to catch a whale

• much ado about nothing

• wild-goose

• chase

• bungler

• fool

• V. be unskillful

• not see an inch beyond one's nose

• blunder

• bungle

• boggle

• fumble

• botch

• bitch

• flounder

• stumble

• trip

• hobble

• put one's foot in it

• make a mess of

• make hash of

• make sad work of;

• overshoot the mark

• play tricks with

• play Puck

• mismanage

• misconduct

• misdirect

• misapply

• missend

• stultify oneself

• make a fool of oneself

• commit oneself

• act

• foolishly

• play the fool

• put oneself out of court

• lose control

• lose

• control of oneself

• lose one's head

• lose one's cunning

• begin at the wrong end

• do things by halves

• make two bites of a cherry

• play at cross purposes

• strain at a gnat and

• swallow a camel

• put the cart before the horse

• lock the

• stable door when the horse is stolen

• not know what one is about

• not know one's own interest

• not know on

• which side one's bread is buttered

• stand in one's own light

• quarrel with

• one's bread and butter

• throw a stone in one's own garden

• kill the goose

• which lays the golden eggs

• pay dear for one's whistle

• cut one's own

• throat

• bum one's fingers

• knock one's head against a stone wall

• beat

• one's head against a stone wall

• fall into a trap

• catch a Tartar

• bring

• the house about one's ears

• have too many eggs in one basket (imprudent)

• have too many irons in the fire

• mistake

• take the shadow for the substance

• bark up the wrong tree

• be in the wrong box

• aim at a pigeon and kill

• a crow

• take the wrong pig by the tail

• get the wrong pig by the tail

• get

• the wrong sow by the ear

• get the dirty end of the stick

• put the saddle on

• the wrong horse

• put a square peg into a round hole

• put new wine into old

• bottles

• cut blocks with a razor

• hold a farthing candle to the sun

• (useless) 6

• fight with a shadow

• grasp at a shadow

• catch at straws

• lean on a broken reed

• reckon without one's host

• pursue a wild goose

• chase

• go on a fool's goose chase

• sleeveless errand

• go further and fare

• worse

• lose one's way

• miss one's way

• fail

• Adj. unskillful

• inexpert

• bungling

• awkward

• clumsy

• unhandy

• lubberly

• gauche

• maladroit

• left-handed

• heavy-handed

• slovenly

• slatternly

• gawky

• adrift

• at fault

• inapt

• unapt

• unteachable

• giddy

• (inattentive) 45

• inconsiderate

• stupid

• inactive

• incompetent

• unqualified

• disqualified

• ill-qualified;

• unfit

• quackish

• raw

• green

• inexperienced

• rusty

• out of practice

• unaccustomed

• unused

• untrained

• uninitiated

• unconversant

• shiftless

• unstatesmanlike

• unadvised

• ill-advised

• misadvised

• ill-devised

• ill-imagined

• ill-

• judged

• ill-contrived

• ill-conducted

• unguided

• misguided

• misconducted

• foolish

• wild

• infelicitous

• penny wise and pound foolish

• (inconsistent) 608

• Phr. one's fingers being all thumbs

• the right hand forgets its

• cunning

• incidit in Scyllam qui

• vult vitare Charybdim[Lat]

• out of the frying pan into the fire

• non omnia

• possumus omnes [Lat][Vergil]