Debt security that is initially low but increases in stages until it reaches a fixed point and will stay at that rate until redemption.

The pre-determined increase each year of a capital entitlement.

Tax provision for inheritances allowing tax to be determined by market value at time of death and not at time of original purchase.

Increase in a premium at set points during the policy term.

1. General. (1) the relative fixed, erroneous and negative generalization held true for certain groups. (2). Having no individual features, stale. 2. Printing. Metal plate used on letter presses.

An anti-microbial agent killing fungi, bacteria, viruses and spores that are hard to eradicate. See sterilizer or spermicide.

Overnight deposit rate average paid by largest London banks on any given day.

Latin- let it stand. 1. Law. Court order that will stay a legal procedure. 2. Proofreading. Ignore the correction just made.

The unloading and loading of cargo.

A European martin force unit that is needed to accelerate a mass of 1 ton at the rate of 1 meter per second squared. Equal to 1000 Newton’s, or 224.81 pounds of

Base price of a vehicle displayed on a sticker on the windscreen.

The ability to retain, visitors, employs, participants and customers.

Financial instrument with a floating rate of interest moving in one direction only.

Web site that is well organized , content rich where visitors will return again and again.

Occurrences in the environment of an organism that effects its behavior. Singular term is stimulus.

Approach to sales saying the right thing at the right time and guiding prospects in a standard question/answer sequence.

Contract where a set amount is set forth as a total payment on the completing of an agreement. See lump sum contract.

The model or situation that contains a random, unpredictable element that has no order or pattern.

The chance effect of an injury caused by a substance with no threshold level and the probability is in proportion to the dose but the severity is independent of it.

The alternate term for probabilistic inventory control.