Term: laffer curve: a graph purporting to show the relation between tax rates and government income; income increases as tax rates increase up to an optimum beyond which income declines
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: right to privacy: right to be free of unsanctioned intrusion → 0
Candidate hypernym: absorption spectrum: the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation that has passed through a medium that absorbed radiation of certain wavelengths → 0
Candidate hypernym: negative reinforcing stimulus: a reinforcing stimulus whose removal serves to decrease the likelihood of the response that produced it → 0
Candidate hypernym: vespula: sometimes considered a subgenus of Vespa: social wasps → 0
Candidate hypernym: cock: obscene terms for penis → 0
Candidate hypernym: chilean firebush: grown for outstanding display of brilliant usually scarlet-crimson flowers; Andes → 0
Candidate hypernym: shortwave diathermy machine: a diathermy machine that uses short wave radiation as the source of heat → 0
Candidate hypernym: wernicke's area: the auditory word center; located in the posterior part of the superior temporal convolution in most people → 0
Candidate hypernym: disaffection: disloyalty to the government or to established authority → 0
Candidate hypernym: incompetence: inability of a part or organ to function properly → 0