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Category: V

VAULT

A safe and secure area in financial institutions for storing money and valuables.

VICIOUS CIRCLE

Disadvantageous situation that is self propagating and leads from one thing to another and back again. See virtuoso circle.

VIRUS

1. A parasitic and infectious microorganism smaller than a bacterium. Incapable of independent metabolic activity. Needs to invade a living organism to derive energy to survive. 2. See computer virus.

VITIATING FACTOR

Provision, clause or term impairing a contract or making it void or voidable.

VOLT (V)

Metric unit of electrical potential. Equal to the steady flow of one amp current against one ohm of resistance

VOYAGE POLICY

Marine policy of insurance covering one trip and only the cargo on the trip.

VALUE ADDED

1. Accounting. Alternate term for Gross income. 2. Economics. Difference of sales revenue and costs to produce. See economic value. 3. Marketing. Creating an advantage over the competition by adding more products

VALUE BILLING

Charges for a service not based on time taken but on the price of the service.

VANDALISM

Mindless and malicious harm and injury to another’s property.

VEBLEN EFFECT

Abnormal behavior of a market where higher priced goods are bought even though lower priced substitutes are available.

VERSO

Side of book on the left-hand side with an even page number. Opposite is recto.

VEST

1. Confer right of legal ownership. 2. Confer legal authority, rights, power. 3. Designation of endowment of power, authority, rights.

VICKREY AUCTION

Sealed auction bid where successful bidder pays second top price. Also known as second bid auction, second price auction.

VIS-?

1. In regard to; compared with. 2. French- face to face.

VITRIFICATION

Method of waste disposal using high temperatures to immobilize and encapsulate radioactive and hazardous materials.

VOLTAGE

Amount of volts of potential difference of a circuit.

VULNERABILITY

Degree of people, resources, property, environments are susceptible to be harmed, degrade, destroyed or exposed to hostile factors.

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