An automated electronic order in NASDAQ for orders that are fewer than 1000 shares.
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SMALL TITHES
All personal aud mixed tithes, aud also hops, llax, saffrons, po- tatoes, aud sometimes, by custom, wood. Otherwise called “privy tithes.” 2 Steph. Comm. 720.
SMART CARD
A card the same size as a credit card that contains a microprocessor chip, memory and a battery. It stores in formation allowing a person to access different areas and […]
SMART FLUID
A suspension of zeolites or metals inj liquid that becomes a solid when an electric current is passing through it and returns to a fluid when the current stops.
SMART MONEY
The trades and investments in stocks that are made by the most sophisticated vendors who have a great understanding of financial markets and often see trends earlier than others do.
SMART-MONEY
Viudictive or exemplary damages . See Brewer v. Jacobs (C. C.) 22 led. 224; Springer v. Somers Fuel Co., 190 I’a. 150, 40 Atl. 370; Day v. Wood- worth, 13 […]
SMARTPHONE
A mobile phone with many features of a computer included in its functions.
SMELTING
The extraction of metal from ore using heat in an enlosed furnace. Impurties called slag rise to the surface. The opposite of roasting that involves an oxidation process.
SMITH ACT
the name of a federal statute that makes in unlawful to attempt to overthrow the government by force.
SMOG
The combination of smoke and fog. It now refers to the photochemical smog trapped at ground level by inversion layers in the atmosphere.
SMOKE
The products that are produced during a combustible event such as a fire.
SMOKE DAMAGE
Any damage that is caused by the smoke that is produced from a fire.
SMOKE-FARTHINGS
In old English law . Au annual reut paid to cathedral churches; another name for the peutecostals or customary oblations offered by the dispersed inhabitants within a diocese, when they […]
SMOKE-SILVER
In English law . A sum paid to the ministers of divers parishes as a modus in lieu of tithe-wood. Blount.
SMOKESTACK INDUSTRY
A heavy manufacturing industry, cars, metal industries, that puts pollution into the air that is harmful to the local environment .
SMOKING GUN
A piece of information or a document that bears evidence that is indisputable to back up a claim.
SMOOTHING
The technique used in statistics that evens out small and short term irregularites in data.
SMOOTHING DEMAND
Used in marketing when demand is exceeding production ads and promotional material are withdrawn from the market until production has caught up.
SMORGASBORD
A Scandinavian term for a cold buffet. Now it is where all courses are offered at the same time, both hot and cold. Swedish – sandwich table.
SMUGGLE
The act, with intent to defraud. of bringing into the United States , or with like intent, attempting to bring into the United States, dutiable articles, without passing the same, […]
SMUGGLING
The offense of importing prohibited articles, or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of articles into consumption , without paying the duties chargeable upon them. It may be committed […]
SNAKE OIL
A mixture of exotic ingredients that promise to cure all ills that usually has no medicinal properties at all.
SNOB EFFECT
The demand for an item in a higher market that inversely varies with the demand in a lower income market.
SNOTTERING SILVER
A small duty which was paid by servile tenants in Wy- legh to the abbot of Colchester. Cowell.
SNOWBALLING
When stop orders cause upward or downward market movement setting off additional stop orders, continuing until several cycles occur. Refer to gather in the stops .