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| green card |
a registration card that allows an alien to live and be employed in the United States. |
| home port |
the location of a vessel between trips or during maintenance servicing, or its port of registration. [1/2 definitions] |
| license plate |
a metal tag or plate displayed on a motor vehicle and bearing a registration number that qualifies the vehicle as legal to drive on public highways and roads. |
| Medgar Evers |
American civil rights activist during the 1950s and early sixties. Evers worked to desegregate Mississippi schools, set up voter registration drives, helped organize economic boycotts of white businesses engaging in discrimination, and investigated crimes against black citizens. He was assassinated by a member of a white supremacist group in 1963. (b. 1925--d. 1963). |
| number plate |
(chiefly British) a metal tag or plate displayed on a motor vehicle and bearing a registration number that qualifies the vehicle as legal to drive on public highways and roads; license plate. |
| registration |
a certificate indicating that registration has taken place. [1/4 definitions] |
| reregistration |
combined form of registration. |
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