Limiting the federal budget. It can mean increased taxes and reduced spending by the government to handle budget defecits.
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DEFILE
To debauch, deflower, or corrupt the chastity of a woman. The term doesnot necessarily imply force or ravishment, nor does it connote previous immaculateness.State v. Montgomery, 79 Iowa, 737. 45 […]
DEFINE
To explain or state the exact meaning of words and phrases; to settle,make clear, establish boundaries. U. S. v. Smith, 5 Wheat. 100, 5 L. Ed. 57; Walters v.Richardson, 93 […]
DEFINED BENEFIT FORMULA
An equation used to compute contributions in a benefit plan.
DEFINED BENEFIT PLAN
A pension plan where an employer puts aside money for employees in a tax defferred account.The formula is set in advance. AKA career average benefit formula , career average formula, […]
DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLAN
A benefit plan that an employee adds a fixed amount every month until they retire. AKA defined contribution pension plan .
DEFINITE
A certain or exact boundary. Refer to definitive.
DEFINITE QUANTITY CONTRACT
A contact to purchase that lets the supply of an amount of goods over a period of time. The delivery is scheduled on a timetable.
DEFINITE TERM CONTRACT
A purchase contract for one to ten years.
DEFINITIO
Lat. Definition, or, more strictly, limiting or bounding; as In the maximof the civil law: Omnis definitio pcricu- losa est, parum est enim ut non subverti pos- sit,(Dig. 50, 17, […]
DEFINITION
A description of a thing by its properties; an explanation of themeaning of a word or term. Webster. The process of stating the exact meaning of aword by means of […]
DEFINITIVE
That which finally and completely ends and settles a controversy . A definitive sentence or judgment is put inopposition to an Interlocutory judgment.A distinction may be taken between a final […]
DEFINITIVE EDITION
The complete works of an author in their authoritative form.
DEFINITIVE SECURITY
A DEBT or EQUITY security that is issued in the form of a physical certificate rather than as a dematerialized, electronic computer entry. See also BOOKENTRY SECURITY, SCRIP.
DEFINITIVE SENTENCE
The final judgment, decree, or sentence of an ecclesiastical court. 3 Bl. Comm. 101.
DEFINITIZATION
The final agreement or contract about a decision. It can be about cost or the scope of a project.
DEFINITIZED ITEM
An element of a project that has been established.
DEFLATION
1.When the economy is in a downturn due to governmental policy. The wages go down, less credit is available, less imports come in due to demand, and the citizens money […]
DEFLATOR
The inflation rate used to convert prices and wages from nominal to real.
DEFLORATION
Seduction or debauching. The act by which a woman is deprived of her virginity.
DEFORCE
In English law . To withhold wrongfully; to withhold the possession of lands from one who is lawfully entitled to them. 3 Bl. Comm. 172; Phelps v. Baldwin, 17 Conn. […]
DEFORCEMENT
Deforcement Is where a man wrongfully holds lands to whichanother person is entitled. It therefore includes disseisin, abatement, discontinuance ,and intrusion. Co. Litt. 2776, 3316; Foxworth v. White, 5 Strob. […]
DEFORCIANT
One who wrongfully keeps the owner of lands and tenements out of the possession of them. 2 Bl. Comm. 350.
DEFORCIARE
L. Lat. To withhold lands or tenements from the rightful owner. This is a word of art which cannot be supplied by any other word. Co. Litt. 3316.
DEFORCIATIO
L. Lat. In old English law . A distress, distraint, or seizure of goods for satisfaction of a lawful debt. Cowell.