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REFERENCE PRICING
This term refers to the strategy in which a product is sold at a price just below its main competing brand.
REFERENCE STATUTES
these are the laws that refer to the older existing laws that make them apply to the new legislation .
REFERENDARIUS
An officer by whom the order of causes was laid before the Roman emperor, the desires of petitioners made known , and answers returned to them. Vicat, Voc. Jur.; Calvin.
REFERENDARY
In Saxon law. A master of requests; an officer to whom petitions to the king were referred. Spelman.
REFERENDO SINGULA SINGULIS
I.at Referring individual or separate words to separate subjects; making a distributive reference of words in an instrument ; a rule of construction .
REFERENDUM
In international law . A communication sent by a diplomatic rep- resentative to his home government, in regard to matters presented to him which he is unable or unwilling to […]
REFERENT POWER
This term refers to the influence over others that is acquired from being respected and well-liked by them.
REFERRAL
This term refers to the recommendation by a patients primary care doctor that they see an additional doctor, usually a specialist.
REFERRAL PREMIUM
A referral premium is a reward recived by customer who introduce new customers and employees that bring in new, suitable recruits.
REFERRAL PROVIDER
A referral provider is the health care provider , usually a specialist, that the patient has been referred to.
REFERRAL SELLING
This type of selling is the basis of all direct selling. It is about acquiring new customers who have been suggested or referred by existing customers.
REFI BUBBLE
This is the period which is used to take advantage of lower interest rates, borrowers replace old debt with new debt.
REFINANCE
a term applied to the act of taking notes that are the agreements that have been signed to pay and giving them to a finance company specialising in buying notes […]
REFINANCE WAVE
Period in which a large number of borrowers refinance to change interest rates. When short-term interest rates decline, borrowers may replace long-term mortgages with short-term ARMs. When short-term rates rise, […]
REFINANCING
This term refers to acquiring a new, larger loan that retires an older, smaller loan over a longer term, using the same assets as collateral.
REFINANCING RISK
Chance that a bank (1) will not be able to refinance maturing deposits or liabilities, (2) if they are refinanced, the maturity and interest rate of the financing will negatively […]
REFINED PRECIOUS METALS
This term refers to gold, osmium, iridium, palladium, rhodium, platinum, ruthenium, silver at least ‘999 Fine’ in forms such as bars, foils, leaves, powder, sheets, solutions, and wire. See also […]
REFINEMENT
A term sometimes employed to describe verbiage inserted in a pleading or indictment , over and above necessary to be set forth ; or an objection to a plea or […]
REFINERY
A facility where a semi-finished substance such as oil or metal is refined and turned into a higher grader product through electrolysis or distillation.
REFITTING
This term refers to the converting or retooling a facility or plant to handle a different product and/or process. See also: back fitting
REFLATION
This term refers to the intentional acceleration of economic activity by a government, usually by using inflationary and public spending measures, to reverse deflationary trends.
REFLATIONARY POLICY
A monetary policy aimed at boosting the level of the economy, usually through inflationary means such as reducing the taxation level or public spending .
REFLEX EFFECT
Propensity of free and open markets to routinely return to a balanced state through price mechanisms, following attempts to maintain an unnaturally high or low price.
REFORM
To correct, rectify, amend, remodel. Instruments inter partes may be reformed, when defective, by a court of equity . By this Is meant that the court, after ascertaining the real […]