Characteristics that are the focus of particular interest of an individual to an examiner, interviewer, trainer, or perceiver.

This word is used to express the system of government prevailing in a country where the management of local matters is in the hauds of functionaries appointed by the ministers […]

The accumulation by a central authority of the power to make cash flow decisions for all levels of a multifaceted company or conglomerate . The intent is to achieve greater […]

Management practice of accumulating all or most decision makers into one central office . These are the people who have the authority, control, and responsibility for the entire organization and […]

One common purchasing organization manages one purchasing system for all purchase needs of all of the departments of a company in a wide geographical distribution . Centralized purchasing helps negotiating […]

A nonprofit, limited liability company (llc) research institution in Germany. It is involved with the gathering of research data that organizes information on economic issues and policies. The institution provides […]

CENTRal EXchange. Telephone company service that renders obsolete the need of buying, maintaining, and upgrading a private branch exchange (PBX). Essentially, Centrex service consists of ordinary trunk lines with several […]

Standard 36pin parallel port connection interface for a computer and printer. Developed by the Centronics printer company, which is now defunct, it is now governed by IEEE 1284B protocol, and […]

Measurement of industrial consumption of natural gas or water is taken in this unit. One CCF is 100 cubic feet.

In Roman law. The name of an important court consisting of a body of one hundred and five judges. It was made up by choosing three representatives from each of […]

One hundred. A body of one hundred men. The Romans were divided into centuries, as the English were divided into hundreds. Also a cycle of one hundred years.

A slang term for CEOs being removed from their positions and replaced with someone new in a quick turnaround fashion in their organizations.

A monthly survey of one hundred CEOs across the United Sates in various industries. It is a measure of the economic future as seen by these CEOs. The data collected […]

In Anglo Saxon law. The freemen were divided into two classes,

Lat. I have taken. This word was of frequent use in the returns of sheriffs when they were made in Latin, and particularly In the return to a writ of […]

In civil practice. He took. This was the characteristic word employed in (Latin) writs of trespass for goods taken, and in declarations in trespass and replevin. Replevin in the ecpit […]

He took and led away. The emphatic words in writs in trespass or indictments for larceny, where the thing taken was a living chattel, i. e., an animal.

In old English law . The stumps or roots of trees which remain in the ground after the trees are felled. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 41,

In old English law . A payment to provide candles in the church. Blount

In old English law . Ale or beer

In old English law . Head money or common fine . Money paid yearly by the residents of several manors to the lords thereof, for the certain keeping of the […]

Ascertained; precise; identified; definitive; clearly known; unambiguous ; or, in law, capable of being identified or made known , without liability to mistake or ambiguity, from data already given. Cooper […]

Certain contracts are those in which the thing to be done is supposed to depend on the will of the party, or when, in the usual course of events, it […]

A payment that has no preconditions for it to occur.

In feudal and old English law. Such services as were stinted (limited or defined) in quantity, and could uot be exceeded on any pretense; as to pay a stated annual […]