Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The office of an emir.
- noun The nation or territory ruled by an emir.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office or rank of an emir.
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- noun A
country ruled by an emir. - noun The
office of anemir .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the domain controlled by an emir
- noun the office of an emir
Etymologies
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Examples
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The participation of Dubai is seen as vital to the success of the new OECD initiative, as the emirate is a major trading and consumption hub for gold, and comes a decade after a similar process was introduced to keep so-called blood diamonds off the global market.
Dubai DMCC Likely to Adopt New 'Conflict Gold' Guidelines Brinda Darasha 2011
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DUBAI — Dubai's Cityscape real-estate exhibition will start Monday at a time of continuing concerns over market oversupply in the emirate, which is hampering recovery two years after the burst of a local property bubble.
Dubai Kicks Off Cityscape Amid Oversupply Concerns Nour Malas 2010
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Dubai's failure to make it harder for Iranian activities in the emirate is a thorny issue with federal officials in Abu Dhabi and the U.S. government, which is keen to choke off the Islamic republic from the outside world with new sanctions.
Hamas Killing Exposes Dubai's Dark Side Maria Abi-Habib 2010
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Dubai's failure to make it harder for Iranian activities in the emirate is a thorny issue with federal officials in Abu Dhabi and the U.S. government, which is keen to choke off the Islamic republic from the outside world with new sanctions.
Hamas Killing Exposes Dubai's Dark Side Maria Abi-Habib 2010
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Dubai's failure to make it harder for Iranian activities in the emirate is a thorny issue with federal officials in Abu Dhabi and the U.S. government, which is keen to choke off the Islamic republic from the outside world with new sanctions.
Hamas Killing Exposes Dubai's Dark Side Maria Abi-Habib 2010
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The conglomerate in May agreed in principle with its main creditors to restructure the debt, helping lift a cloud of uncertainty that had hung over the economy of the emirate, which is struggling with an estimated $100 billion pile of total debt racked up before the onset of the world financial crisis.
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Dubai's failure to make it harder for Iranian activities in the emirate is a thorny issue with federal officials in Abu Dhabi and the U.S. government, which is keen to choke off the Islamic republic from the outside world with new sanctions.
Hamas Killing Exposes Dubai's Dark Side Maria Abi-Habib 2010
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Yet, the great crusader was seemingly oblivious to the fact that he was speaking from a country, an emirate, which is ruled by a royal family which has no use or desire for democratic reforms which would allow its subjects to directly challenge the autocracy's ultimate authority to enact those reforms.
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But to term our emirate "Dubai Inc.," as some do, suggests that commerce, more than anything else, is our leitmotif.
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[19] This was at first known as the emirate of Cordova, but in 929 A.D. it became the caliphate of Cordova.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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