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Category: V

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.

VALUE ADDED ACTIVITY

Generating a positive return on resource investment that can’t be stopped without process impairment.

VALUE CHAIN

Activities adding value that are linked and convert input to output and add to the bottom line.

VALUE PROPOSITION

Analysis of gods and services offered to a company’s customers for payment.

VAPOR

Gaseous form of a solid or liquid.

VECTOR

Set of numbers or elements arranged in a table as rows and columns.

VESTED COMMISSIONS

Agent commissions even if he no longer works for the insurer that come from renewal of business.

VICTIM

Person harmed by criminal acts, attack target.

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