Category: C

  • Comparative management

    The study of the management process in different countries in order to examine the potential of management action under different environmental conditions.  

  • Companionship marriage

    A marriage that emphasizes mutual consent and agreements above the rules, values, and expectations of society. A profit-making business owned by a single person, parties, or a group of shareholders or stock-holders.  

  • Companion bill

    In politics and law, two or more bills dealing with related aspects of the same topic.  

  • Companionate love

    The friendship, caring, and deep attachment of established couples, companion love. A form of love characteristic of long-term relationships involves friendly affection and deep attachment and is less emotionally intense than passion ate love companionate love.  

  • Companion cell

    In botany, a small, specialized parenchyma cell associated with the sieve-tube elements of flowering plants.  

  • Community school

    A school that is intimately connected with the life of the community and tries to provide for the educational needs of all in the geographic locality.  

  • Community psychology

    An approach to therapy which emphasizes prevention and the seeking out of potential difficulties rather than waiting for troubled persons to initiate consultation. Professional activities are usually centered in the person’s natural surroundings rather than in a professional office, prevention.  

  • Community producing deviance

    Behaviors that contribute to a community with deviant behaviors.  

  • Community organization

    By this process, a community identifies its needs, develops the abilities and finds the resources to meet these needs, and develops cooperative and collaborative attitudes and practices in the community.  

  • Community mental health

    The delivery of services to needy, underserved groups through centers that offer outpatient therapy, short-term inpatient care, day hospitalization, 24-h emergency services, and consultation and education to other community agencies.