Preservation under law; conservation, protection. Cf. conservancy, n.

= conservacy, n.

Official charge and care of rivers, sewers, forests, etc.; (also) a body charged with this (rare). Cf. conservancy, n. 2. Now chiefly historical…

Usually with capital initial. An official body having jurisdiction over a waterway or port, to regulate fisheries, navigation, etc.; in later use…

(in the United Kingdom) a commission of inquiry or committee appointed by the Crown on the recommendation of the government.

A group of individuals serving on the commission of a county; spec. (U.S.) a body of elected officials administering local government at the county…

a committee appointed to guard the public interest in relation to railroads.

an independent body that monitors and evaluates the performance or practices of a particular organization; (British Politics) an independent body…

the executive body of the European Union and its predecessors (see sense A. 5b), based in Brussels, on which representatives of each of the member…

An independent body established in 1968 to promote the conservation and improvement of the countryside in England (and formerly in Wales) and to…

an official body charged with the investigation of claims of human rights abuses, esp. during a previous government or regime; abbreviated TRC (see…

= Truth and Reconciliation Commission n.