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Engineering
The discipline, art, skill and profession of applying scientific knowledge and principles to the design and manufacturing of machines, structures, devices, systems, materials and processes.
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Financial services; General Finance
A financing technique in which a company decreases its risk by creating separate partnerships, rather than subsidiaries, for certain holdings and solicits outside investors to ...
sweat equity
Financial services; General Finance
An increase in equity created by the labor of the owner.
suicide pill
Financial services; General Finance
A hostile takeover prevention tactic that could destroy the target company. Taking on a large amount of debt to prevent the takeover might cause bankruptcy, for example.
tender offer
Financial services; General Finance
General offer made publicly and directly to a firm's shareholders to buy their stock at a price well above the current market price.
security market plane
Financial services; General Finance
A plane that shows the relationship between expected return and the beta coefficient of more than one factor.
cheshire
Dairy products; Cheese
One of the oldest English cheeses, invented during the 12th century. There are three types of Cheshire: White, Red (colored with annatto) and Blue which is punctured during the ...
