A fund in which returns generated on investments are automatically returned to the general pool with the aim of keeping a continuous supply of capital on hand for investments.

A marketing term and a strategy for an automobile part or entire vehicle that is foreign-built vehicle and sold under the name of an importer or by a domestic automaker […]

Captive insurance companies are insurance companies established with the specific objective of financing risks emanating from their parent group or groups, but they sometimes also insure risks of the group’s […]

Markets where the potential consumers face a severely limited amount of competitive suppliers; their only choices are to purchase available or to make no purchase at all. Captive markets result […]

A product made specifically to be used with another, such as a refill with a ball-point pen, a blade with a razor, a battery with a torch, etc.

Prisoners of war. As in the goods of an enemy, so also in his person, a sort of qualified property may be acquired, by taking him a prisoner of war, […]

In International law . One who takes or seizes property in time of war; one who takes the property of an enemy. In a stricter sense, one who takes a […]

In international law . The taking or wresting of property from one of two belligerents by the other. It occurs either on land or at sea. In the former case, […]

The percentage of generated secondary materials actually recovered from a household or business.

A head; the head of a person; the whole person ; the life of a person; one’s personality ; status; civil condition. At common law . A head. Caput comitatis, […]

In old English law . Head or poll money, or the payment of it Cowell; Blount.

The first day of the year.

The castle or chief seat of a baron.

The beginning of the Lent fast, i. e., Ash Wednesday.

The head or upper part of a place.

In old English law . A wolf’s head . An outlawed felon was said to be caput lupinum . and might be knocked on the head, like a wolf.

A dead head; dead ; obsolete.

In old English law . The head of a port. The town to which a port belongs, and which gives the denomination to the port, and is the head of […]

In old English law . A head of land; a headland. Cowell.

A policy of insurance protecting an owner and driver against losses associated with the use and operation of a motor vehicle.

A car title loan , or simply title loan, is a loan where the borrower provides their car title as collateral for a loan.

In old English law . A kind of raft or boat. Spelman.

A measure of weight for diamonds and other precious stones, equivalent to three and one-sixth grains Troy, though divided by jewelers into four parts called “diamond grains.” Also a standard […]

Calcium carbide (CaC2), used to generate acetylene by reaction with water and formerly used in portable lamps.

The chemical element of atomic number 6, a nonmetal that has two main forms (diamond and graphite) and that also occurs in impure form in charcoal, soot, and coal or […]