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Defined in 5 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Bouvier (1839)

United States Code

15 U.S.C. § 656 — in this section

the term “women’s business center site” means the location of—

(A) a women’s business center; or

(B) 1 or more women’s business centers, established in conjunction with another women’s business center in another location within a State or region—

(i) that reach a distinct population that would otherwise not be served;

(ii) whose services are targeted to women; and

(iii) whose scope, function, and activities are similar to those of the primary women’s business center or centers in conjunction with which it was established.

15 U.S.C. § 7108 — for purposes of this chapter

the term “women’s business enterprise” means—

(A) a business or businesses owned by a woman or a group of women; or

(B) the establishment, maintenance, or development of a business or businesses by a woman or a group of women; and

15 U.S.C. § 657p — in this section

the term “women’s business center” means a women’s business center described in section 656 of this title.

15 U.S.C. § 9002 — in this section

the term “women’s business center” means a women’s business center described in section 656 of this title.

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

All the females of the human species. All such females who have arrived at the age of puberty. Mu Ueris appellatione etiam virgo viri potens continetur. Dig. 50. 16. 13. See 84 111. 11,

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

All the females of the human spectes. All such females who have arrived at the age of puberty. Dig. 50, 16, 13.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In the civil law. A name; the name, style, or designation of a person. Properly, the name showing to what gens or tribe he belonged, as distinguished from his own individual name, (the prauomen,) from his surname or family name, (cognomen,) and from any name added by way of a descriptive title, (agnomen.) The name or style of a class or genus of persons or objects. A debt or a debtor. Ainsworth; Calvin.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

persons.

In its most enlarged sense, this word signifies all the females of the human species; but in a more restricted sense, it means all such females who have arrived at the age of puberty. Women are either single or married. 1. Single or unmarried women have pements; sue and be sued; be trustees or guardians; they may be witnesses, and may for that purpose attest all papers; but they are, generally, not possessed of any political power; hence they cannot be elected representatives of the people, nor be appointed to the offices of judge, attorney at law, sheriff, constable, or any other office, unless expressly authorised by law; instances occur of their being appointed post mistresses; nor can they vote at any election. 2. The existence of a married woman being merged, by a fiction of law, in the being of her husband, she is rendered incapable, during the coverture, of entering into any contract, or of suing or being sued, except she be joined with her husband; and she labours under all the incapacities above mentioned, to which single women are subject.