One of the three communities of Belgium, consisting of the Flemish Region (the provinces of West Flanders, East Flanders, Flemish Brabant, Antwerp, Limburg) and partially the Brussels-Capital Region.

(law) Property acquired during a marriage, excluding gifts and inheritances, that is owned jointly by both spouses and is divided upon divorce, annulment or death.

(communism, history) The economic policy of the RSFSR during the Russian Civil War.

(sociolinguistics) A language user's grammatical knowledge of syntax, morphology, phonology and the like, as well as social knowledge about how and when to use utterances appropriately.

plural of communicative competence

(UK) The treatment and care of physically and mentally disabled people in their own homes, rather than in an institution.

(politics, economics) A form of anarchism advocating the abolition of the state and capitalism in favor of a horizontal network of voluntary associations through which people would satisfy their needs.

(physics) A no-go theorem stating that, during measurement of an entangled quantum state, it is not possible for one observer, making a measurement of a subsystem of the total state, to communicate information to another observer.

A planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork.

(historical) The form of communism in Hungary following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, involving high living standards and economic reforms.