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UNFORESEEN CONDITION

An unexpected or unanticipated event or situation affecting final price or time of completion of a project.

UNIFORM PROVISIONS

Provisions recommended by National Association of Insurance Commissioners and mandated under law nearly everywhere.

UNION STEWARD

Employee that is elected by co-workers as the representative of the union.

UNIT PRICE CONTRACT

Construction contract where the client pays a set sum for each unit of work when it is completed.

UNIVERSE

The population, collection, items, bodies grouped together due to commonalities that a representative sample is then taken for measurement of comparisons.

UNOCCUPIED

Property classification where it is not occupied by people but can have goods and furniture in it.

UNREPORTED INCOME

Taxpayer’s failure to report all income he has received and avoid paying as much tax as needs to be paid.

UPGRADE

New version of hardware and software, equipment or a machine better than the last and more expensive.

UPSTREAM INDUSTRIES

Industrial firms processing raw materials into an unfinished product to be completed by someone else.

USEFUL LIFE

Period during which an asset will be able to be used.

UNECONOMIC GROWTH

Condition where direct benefit of growth is outweighed by the negative consequences of that growth.

UNFUNDED

1. Finance. Debt or project not funded by private or public funds. 2. retirement plan. Current benefits are paid out from current funds paid into the plan.

UNIQUE RISK

Loss exposure that is associated with a certain investment or strategy of investment that can be reduced by diversity in a portfolio.

UNIT PRICING

Method where goods are sold in a fixed unit including all profit margins and costs.

UNIX

Powerful and very stable 32 bit operating system used by computers. Is the platform the internet was built on, written in C language and coming with TCP/IP protocols.

UNPAID BALANCE

Remaining balance of a loan, cash advance or credit that has not been paid.

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