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Terms for subject United States (7423 entries)

minehunting	Employment of sensor and neutralization systems, whether air, surface, or subsurface, to locate and dispose of individual mines in a known field, or to verify the presence or absence of mines in a given area
Minerals Management Service	MMS
minesweeping	The technique of clearing mines using either mechanical sweeping to remove, disturb, or otherwise neutralize the mine; explosive sweeping to cause sympathetic detonations, damage, or displace the mine; or influence sweeping to produce either the acoustic or magnetic influence required to detonate the mine
minimize	A condition wherein normal message and telephone traffic is drastically reduced in order that messages connected with an actual or simulated emergency shall not be delayed
Minimum Alternate Tax	MAT
minimum force	Those minimum actions, including the use of armed force, sufficient to bring a situation under control or to defend against hostile act or hostile intent, where the firing of weapons is to be considered as a means of last resort
Minimum Funding Requirement	MFR
Minimum Living Unit	MLU
Minimum Subsistence Level	MSL
Minimum Technology Guidance	MTG
Minimum Unit Quantity	MUQ
minimum-risk route	A temporary corridor of defined dimensions recommended for use by high-speed, fixed-wing aircraft that presents the minimum known hazards to low-flying aircraft transiting the combat zone
Mining Enforcement And Safety Administration	MESA
Mining Law Administration Program	MLAP
Mining Working Group	MWG
ministrations	the provision of assistance or care	Val_Sh­ips
Minnesota Chippewa Tribes	MCT
Minority Business Development Agency	MBDA
Minority Business Development Council	MBDC
Minority On Line Information Service	MOLIS