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DEAD CAT BOUNCE

A wall street term for brief recovery in the price of an unprofitable stock.

DEALER LOCATER

A gift for incentive that a retailer gets to get them to buy more. Dealer programs or premiums are an example.

DEBT DISCHARGE

Releasing liabilty for unsecured debt due to bankruptcy order or creditor. The debt is unenforceable. Anything secured with collateral are enforced through liens.

DECLARED VALUE FOR CARRIAGE

A shipment’s value used to decide charges and limits the carriers liability. It is the cost price and is lower than the declared value for customs.

DECOUPLING STOCK

Inventory shared by two operations to prevent breakdown or unevenness for machines. It reduces output synchronization. AKA intermediate stock.

DEFECTIVE PRODUCT

A commercial good that is not fit for the use, dangerous, or has inadequate instructions. Refer to defect.

DEFICIT FINANCING

1. A planned expenditure the government has to put more money without taxing. It is supposed to increase business activity and additional revenue for shortfall. AKA defecit spending. 2. Financing debt to

DEFRAGMENTATION

The act of rearranging files on the hard disk to make faster data access.The space left when this happens is filled by new files. If its too big a fragment is left

DEIONIZATION

Taking atoms from liquid. Water is passed through two resins to get rid of positive ions and other negative ones.

DELETING

Erasing data from a storage medium. The space left is used.

DELUXE EDITION

A limited edition of a book done on quality products. It has high quality workmanship.

DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION

The idea that population changes are connected to economic, educational, and healthcared developments are made. When women are better educated and more independent than the fertility rate will decrase. They have less

DEPRESSANT

A substance that reduces normal activity or desire for food.

DETACHED

When a residence has no common walls. It is a permanent dwelling on a separate lot and ownership rights. It is a single family home. AKA single detached dwelling.

DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION (DDC)

A system used in libraries to catalogue its contents. A number is given to a subject area and all items that are in that area are thusly classified. It was invented by

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