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WAVE

Disturbance passing through medium.

WASH TRADE

Different methodology to wash sale. Not legal as it deals with selling off then rebuying investments to increase trade.

WAR RISK

Possibility of loss, damage to anything from any remains of war like hostilities.

WEAK DOLLAR

Relating to another countries currency needing more of yours to buy theirs.

WELFARE

1. Resources and conditions needed for healthy and comfortable living. 2. Government support for members of society who are disadvantaged.

WATT (W)

Metric unit of power equal to 1/746 of horsepower or one joule per second.

WALLED GARDEN

Environment attractively designed aimed at keeping a captive comfortable and satisfied.

WATCH LIST

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

WEB DESIGN

Describes all of the tasks needed to create an HTML driven web page to be displayed on the WWW.

WEATHER

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

WARNING

Notice, admonition pointing out a danger to one unaware of any.

WEBOGRAPHICS

Study of features, user profiles of visitors to sites. See demographics, psychographics.

WAVE LENGTH

Distance between successive and similar wave or trough points

WEIGHT THRESHOLD

Cargo weight where a standard rate of freight begins to decline. Also known as weight break.

WAYBILL

Shipping document travelling with shipment showing consigner and consignee, origin, destination, goods involved, weight and freight.

WEIGHTED AVERAGE

Mean where each item averaged is multiplied by a number based on its importance relative to others. Also known as weighted mean.

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