Barrenness; incapacity to produce a child.
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STERILIZATION
The offset of foreign exchange market effects by increasing or decreasing the national money supply by a monetary authority such as a central bank . It is a manipulation of […]
STERLING
In English law . Current or standard coin, especially silver coin; a standard of coinage.
STERLING OVERNIGHT INTERBANK AVERAGE (SONIA)
Overnight deposit rate average paid by largest London banks on any given day.
STET
Latin- let it stand. 1. Law. Court order that will stay a legal procedure. 2. Proofreading. Ignore the correction just made.
STET BILL A
If the plaintiff in a plalut in the mayor’s court of London has attached property belonging to the defendant and obtained execution against the garnishee, the defendant, if he wishes […]
STET PROCESSUS
rence In the accounts of monastic establishments. Spelman; Cowell.
STEVEDORE
A person employed in loading aud unloading vessels. The Senator (D. C.) 21 Fed. 191; Rankin v. Merchants’ & M. Transp. Co., 73 Ga. 232, 54 Am. Rep. 874; The […]
STEVEDORING
The unloading and loading of cargo.
STEWARD
This word signifies a man appointed in the place or stead of another, and generally denotes a principal ofiicer within his jurisdiction . Brown.
STEWARTRY,
in Scotch law, is said to be equivalent to the English “county.” See Brown.
STEWS
Certain brothels anciently permitted in England, suppressed by Henry VIII. Also, breeding places for tame pheasants.
STHENE (SN)
A European martin force unit that is needed to accelerate a mass of 1 ton at the rate of 1 meter per second squared. Equal to 1000 Newton’s, or 224.81 […]
STICK
In the old books. To stop; to hesitate; to accede with reluctance. “The court stuck a little at this exception.” 2 Show. 491.
STICK UP
a slang phrase that describes a robbery or a hold up.
STICKER PRICE
Base price of a vehicle displayed on a sticker on the windscreen.
STICKINESS
The ability to retain, visitors, employs, participants and customers.
STICKLER
(1) An inferior officer who cuts wood within the royal parks of Clarendon. Cowell. (2) An arbitrator. (3) An obstinate contender about anything.
STICKY FLOATER
Financial instrument with a floating rate of interest moving in one direction only.
STICKY SITE
Web site that is well organized , content rich where visitors will return again and again.
STIFLING A PROSECUTION
Agreeing, in consideration of receiving a pecuniary or other advantage, to abstain from prosecuting a person for an offense not giving rise to a civil remedy; e. g., perjury. Sweet
STILLBORN
A stillborn child is one born dead or in such an early stage of pregnancy as to be incapable of living, though not actually dead at the time of birth. […]
STILLICIDIUM
Lat. In the civil law . The drip of water from the eaves of a house. The servitude stillicidii consists in the right to have the water drip from one’s […]
STIMULI
Occurrences in the environment of an organism that effects its behavior. Singular term is stimulus.
STIMULUS-RESPONSE METHOD
Approach to sales saying the right thing at the right time and guiding prospects in a standard question/answer sequence.