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• ombudsman — noun (plural ombudsmen) Etymology: Swedish, literally, representative, from Old Norse umbothsmathr, from umboth commission + mathr man Date: 1959 1. a government official (as in Sweden or New Zealand) appointed to receive and investigate… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• War of Wrath — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=War of Wrath caption= date= First Age, Y.S. 545–Y.S. 587 place= Eglarest, mid Beleriand, Anfauglith, Thangorodrim result=Decisive victory for the Host of Valinor combatant1=Host of Valinor [J.R.R. Tolkien,… …   Wikipedia

• ombudsman — om|buds|man [ˈɔmbudzmən US ˈa:m ] n plural ombudsmen [ mən] [Date: 1900 2000; : Swedish; Origin: representative , from Old Norse umbothsmathr, from umboth commission + mathr man ] someone who deals with complaints made by ordinary people against… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• ombudsman — [20] The word ombudsman, denoting an ‘investigator of public complaints’, was introduced into English from Swedish, and was first used as a quasi official term in the 1960s: New Zealand was the first Englishspeaking country to introduce such a… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• ombudsman — [20] The word ombudsman, denoting an ‘investigator of public complaints’, was introduced into English from Swedish, and was first used as a quasi official term in the 1960s: New Zealand was the first Englishspeaking country to introduce such a… …   Word origins

• ombudsman — [äm′bədz mən] n. pl. ombudsmen [äm′bədzmən, äm′budz΄mən; äm budz′mən] [Swed < ombud, a deputy, representative (< ON umboth < um, umbe, about < IE * mbhi , var. of * ambhi , around, on both sides (> AMBI ) + ON bjotha, to offer, bid …   English World dictionary

• umbisett — umbisett(e, umbith see umbeset, umboth …   Useful english dictionary

• umbisette — umbisett(e, umbith see umbeset, umboth …   Useful english dictionary

• umbith — umbisett(e, umbith see umbeset, umboth …   Useful english dictionary

• umbuss — umbuss, umbuth see umboth …   Useful english dictionary