procuration

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proc·u·ra·tion

 (prŏk′yə-rā′shən)
n.
1. The act or an instance of procuring.
2. Law
a. The appointment of an agent.
b. The agent so appointed.
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procuration

(ˌprɒkjʊˈreɪʃən)
n
1. the act of procuring
2. (Law) law
a. the appointment of an agent, procurator, or attorney
b. the office, function, or authority of such an official
c. the formal written authority given to such an official. See also power of attorney
3. (Law) criminal law the offence of procuring women for immoral purposes
4. (Law) archaic the management of another person's affairs
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proc•u•ra•tion

(ˌprɒk yəˈreɪ ʃən)

n.
1.
a. the act of appointing a procurator to manage one's affairs.
b. a document granting and stipulating such authority.
2. the act of obtaining something; procurement.
3. the act of procuring prostitutes.
[1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin]
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This was so wholesome advice, and looked so friendly, that I could not but be convinced it was the best course I could take; so I accordingly prepared letters to the gentlewoman with whom I had left my money, and a procuration to the Portuguese captain, as he desired.
Les pays etrangers, qui detiennent la clef de la solution en Libye, ont jusqu'a present fait preuve d'une grande absence de volonte pour solder la crise en Libye devenue, "un terrain servant a une guerre par procuration et de laboratoire d'experimentation des nouvelles armes et de recyclage des anciennes armes", selon l'expression de l'envoye de l'ONU en Libye, Ghassan Salame.
During a ceremony held by the Jordanian-American Club of Southern California on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the accession of His Majesty King Abdullah II his constitutional powers and the Kingdom 73the Independence Day, both officials offered consular services to Jordanians there, including those related to general and special procuration for the Jordanians to facilitate procedures for them, where these services require the presence of the citizen personally to the embassy.
Rien d'etonnant, apres tout, puisqu'il est physiquement et intrinsequement un reseau de reseaux, avec son cerveau aux 86 milliards de neurones, aux milliards de synapses (100.000 par neurone, en moyenne), son reseau sanguin, ses 60.000 milliards de cellules, jusqu'a son genome humain et son ADN !La complexite et la fulgurance de cette hyper-connectivite a l'interieur de notre corps humain augmenteraient donc, par extension ou par procuration, grace a l'intelligence artificielle ([beaucoup moins que] AI [beaucoup plus grand que], en anglais)!
In 2003 he was appointed Sales Director Camera & Digital Intermediate Systems and granted commercial procuration. From 2004 on, together with Sigrid Mueller, he was Co-Managing Director of ARRI Lighting Solutions in Berlin, which was responsible for the lighting systems business and sales of lighting products in the EMEAI region.
About 200 exhibitors are expected to take part in the upcoming BiznEX Egypt 2018, the first annual investment and commercial procuration event in Cairo, Egypt.
Le probleme, c'est qu'on exige la presence physique de l'interesse ou bien l'etablissement d'une procuration, ce qui n'est pas evident et c'est tres couteux avec le prix des billets, surtout que des personnes agees ne peuvent pas faire le voyage par route.[beaucoup plus grand que] Les pouvoirs publics avaient donne des instructions pour la designation dans chaque wilaya, notamment dans le Grand-Sud, de fonctionnaires correspondants charges de recueillir les demandes d'actes d'etat civil et de les deposer directement au ministere des Affaires etrangeres.
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