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noun
- (countable) The action of loading.
- (uncountable) shipment, Shipment, cargo, freight.
verb
- (present participle of, lade)
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noun
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
- Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
- A country or region.
- Ground that is suitable for farming.
- (Ireland / Colloquial) a fright.
- He got an awful when the police arrived.
verb
- (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
- The plane is about to .
- (intransitive) To come into rest.
- (intransitive) To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
- (transitive) To bring to land.
- It can be tricky to a helicopter.
- Use the net to the fish.
- (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
- (transitive) To deliver.
adjective
- Of or relating to land.
- Residing or growing on land.
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| lapse |
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noun
- A temporary failure; a slip.
- A decline or fall in standards.
- A pause in continuity.
- An interval of time between events.
- A termination of a right etc, through disuse or neglect.
- (weather) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air. This condition usually occurs when skies are clear and between 1100 and 1600 hours, local time. Strong convection currents exist during lapse conditions. For chemical operations, the state is defined as unstable. This condition is normally considered the most unfavorable for the release of chemical agents. See lapse rate.
- A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is will
- Verb, willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
verb (laps, ing)
- (intransitive) To suffer a
- Noun, lapse
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| leakage |
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noun
- an act of leaking, or something that leaks
- the amount lost due to a leak
- an undesirable flow of electric current through insulation
- loss of retail stock, especially due to theft
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| lease |
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noun
- A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent
- The period of such a contract
- A leasehold
verb (leas, ing)
- (transitive) To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
- (transitive, obsolete) To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.
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noun - A property transaction where a party sale, sells something, then leases it from the purchaser. The seller is released from tax, depreciation, and maintenance costs, and the buyer is guaranteed an income from the property.http://www.bartleby.com/61/15/L0091500.html Also called sale and leaseback, sale-leaseback. Also spelled lease-back.
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noun (Plural: ledgers)
- A book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records.
- (accounting): A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.
- (construction): A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to the building.
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| legal tender |
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noun
- : Any form of currency that by law can not be refused as payment for an amount equal to that denoted on the face of the currency.
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| liability insurance |
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noun
- any insurance against a potential loss due to the insured's liability for injury or damage to others
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| limited partnership |
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noun
- a form of partnership similar to a general partnership, except that in addition to one or more general partners and one or more limited partners.
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| liquid |
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noun
- A fundamental state of matter. Liquid is a state between solid and gaseous. A liquid can usually be contained within a glass or a similar container without allowing escape. A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas.
- (phonetics) An l or r sound.
adjective
- Existing in the physical state of a liquid. (Liquid nitrogen)
- (finance) Of an asset, easily sold or disposed of.
- (finance) Of a market, having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
- 2005: The spot foreign exchange market is the world"s largest and most liquid financial market. With a daily trading volume of over $1.5 trillion, the spot forex market can absorb trading sizes that dwarf the capacity of any other market. — xpresstrade.com http://www.xpresstrade.com/24hour_liquidity.html
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verb (liquidat, ing)
- To settle a debt by paying the outstanding amount.
- To settle the affairs of a company, by using its assets to pay its debts.
- To convert assets into cash.
- (informal) to kill someone
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noun (Plural: liquidations)
- The process of converting into cash (or into an asset with high liquidity).
- The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.
- The store is having a sale, everything must go as they go out of business.
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noun - One who liquidates.
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noun - The state or property of being liquid.
- (economics) An asset's property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted into cash.
- Some stocks are traded so rarely that they lack .
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| list |
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noun
- A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
- Material used for cloth selvage.
- 1893: The charwomen are in the habit of taking off their boots at the commissionaire's office, and putting on slippers. " Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Naval Treaty" (Norton 2005, p.681)
- (in plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.
- 1819: William de Wyvil, and Stephen de Martival, ... armed at all points, rode up and down the lists to enforce and preserve good order among the spectators. " Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
verb
- To create or recite a list.
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| listed |
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adjective
- entered on a list, especially an official one
- (British) (of a building) protected from demolition or alteration
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| long |
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noun
- (linguistics) A long vowel.
verb
- (intransitive) To await, to aspire, to want (for something to occur)
- She longed for him to come back.
adjective
- Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point. Long usually applies to horizontal dimensions. (italbrac, see Usage Notes)
- It's a way from the Earth to the Moon.
- Of things that take much time or are of great duration.
- The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a time.
- (finance) possessing or owning stocks, bonds or other financial instruments.
- (cricket) of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position)
adverb
- Over a great distance in space.
- He threw the ball .
- For a duration in time.
- Will this interview take ?
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| loss |
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noun
- an instance of losing
- The match ended in their first of the season.
- something that is lost
- It was written off as a .
- the condition of having lost something or someone
- We mourn his .
- (plural) casualties, especially in wartime
- The battle was won, but losses were great.
- (financial) The money a company loses. The expenditures and taxes minus total income, when this difference is positive.
- (engineering) power expended without doing useful work.
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| loss leader |
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noun
- (context, marketing) An item that is sold at or below cost in an effort to stimulate other profitable sales.
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| Ltd. |
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abbreviation
- limited liability company
- limited
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