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Category: W

WASTEWATER

Used or spent water contain dissolved solids, discharge from homes, industries etc.

WEATHER

Hour by hour and day by day variations in conditions of atmosphere.

WESTERN UNION

Financial services corporation specializing in money transfer. Based in US but used around the world. In business since 1851.

WHOIS

(1) Directory service of Interknit listing names, addresses of people owning and maintaining web sites. (2) Online directory listing logged on network users and people with responsibility for maintenance and management.

WIKI

Website of collaboration allowing users to edit, and upload web page content.

WORKED

Having performed a task or tasks. See working.

WORKOUT

Strategy where a borrower negotiates with the lender to restructure a debt.

WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

Detained person’s attorney uses this writ to force police to bring the person to court and challenge legality of detention.

WRITEOFF

Removal of BV of an obsolete or destroyed asset, uncollectable sum by reducing it to zero.

W. EDWARDS DEMING

Statistician credit with helping the economy of China to recover after WWII.

WAR CLAUSE

Releases the insurer from loss liabilities due to an act of war.

WATCH LIST

List of all securities a broker may consider to be the target of irregular trading activities.

WET BASIS

Formula where the weight of an article wet is divided by weight of an article dry and multiplied by 100 giving a % weight increase.

WILDCARD

Symbol or character replacing characters in search commands.

WINDSTORM

Wind that causes damages to property insured.

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