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UNSTUFFING OF CONTAINER

Process where transport containers are unsealed and all goods removed. Also known as devanning, stripping.

UPSIDE POTENTIAL

Difference in current trading price of a security and the level it is likely to rise up to.

USA PATRIOT ACT

Act passed after September 11 2001 giving law enforcement agencies tool to prevent acts of terror.

UTILITIES EXPENSE

Cost of using utilities like water, electricity. Found on financial statements.

UNIFORM GIFTS TO MINORS ACT

Regulation allowing the adult right to contribute funds to a minor’s account that doesn’t need setting up a trust fund. Adult will manage the account until the holder reaches 18 years of

UNIT OF MEASURE

Standard system or unit that a quantity is counted and expressed in.

UNSUBSIDIZED LOAN

Loan where interest as added as soon as the money is given to the borrower.

USABILITY

Speed and ease of using or operating a device, facility or service.

ULTRAVIOLET (UV) RAYS

Solar radiation that is invisible lying just beyond the violet end of a visible spectrum. Wavelength from 10 to 400 nanometres that harms living tissue.

UNDERCLASS

People at the lowest level of society that have becomes victims of a poverty trap.

UNDERWEIGHT

Situation that has arisen when a portfolio’s investment are lower in proportion to the financial market’s share of capitalisation. Opposite of overweight.

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