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The process that companies, or more particularly their lawyers and accountants, carry out when one.

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A bond sold without the right to the next interest.

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Benefits to employees additional to salary. Typical examples would be company cars, expense.

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Interest cover measures the amount of interest paid by a company on its borrowings against its.

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Amount of water, expressed as a depth or as a mass, which would be obtained if all the water vapor in a specified column of the atmosphere were condensed and precipitated.

Category:Meteorology

On a square-rigged ship, the ropes which hang below a yard upon which the topmen stand while aloft furling or reefing a sail. They were supported by ropes from the yard known as "stirrups".

Category:Sea Words

ACRONYM - MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEETS

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A measure of the unavailable or unusable energy in a system; energy that cannot be converted to another form.

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A plan which enables investors to accumulate shares in a mutual fund by purchasing them on a regular.

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The processing of the form or mode of a signal so as to make it intelligible to, or compatible with, a given device.

Category:Meteorology

A recording siphon barometer.

Category:Meteorology

The forward end of a ship's after superstructure, where the poop deck descends to the upper deck.

Category:Sea Words

The pressure which overcomes the total resistances in a system. It includes all losses as well as useful work.

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Surface resistance to relative motion, which slows down movement and causes heat.

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Cargo-securing devices mounted in the floor of containers; allow lashing and securing of cargo.

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Location where cargo enters the care and custody of carrier.

Category:Sea Words

Sailor's term for being about to get married, a splice being used to join two ropes together.

Category:Sea Words

Used in meteorology to describe boundaries between hot and cold air masses. This is typically where bad weather is found.

Category:Sea Words

A heat exchanger in which two fluids flow in opposite directions for transfer heat energy from one to the other.

Category:Energy Terms

The exchange rate between two currencies, other than those that form a market's principal rates..

Category:Financial Terms