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CHRONICALLY ILL INDIVIDUAL

A person certified as lacking some physical or mental ability essential for living independently. A medical professional or social worker must makes this certification .

CHRONICLE

Recorded description of events or happenings in the order of their occurrence.

CHRONOLOGICAL FILING

Organizing and ordering documents and records in a dated sequence. This sequence can by according to their date of receipt, or date and time of their creation. The item youngest-by-date is usually

CHRONOLOGY

Document or Reference book containing a list in the order of recorded occurrence of events and happenings.

CHUNNEL

The name awarded to the tunnel connecting the UK to France. The Chunnel is 31.4 miles (50.5km) long and courses under the English Channel, It begins at Folkstone, Kent in England to

CHURN RATE

The Contrast to customer retention rate. The higher a churn rate is, the lower a customer retention rate is, and vice versa.

CICERO (CC)

Typographic measure equal to 4.51 millimeters divided into 12 Didot. It is used in mainland Europe, but not in UK, US, or elsewhere.

CIM

Document used for crossborder transport of cargo by rail. Standardized, per UN recommendations on uniform international rules and European Union (EU) applied. CIM means ‘Convention Internationale concernant le transport des Marchandises par

CIRCLE TRIP

A plane trip that end in the same place as it started but with different stops on the way and back so that it is not a round trip. For example: A

CIRCUIT BREAKER

1. In General, this is a point in a circuit that has a device that can interrupt and shut down the circuit under specific conditions, such as too much flow, heat, fire.

CIRCULAR CAUSATION

An action that is controlled or affected by its own status-change or result This is a common situation in complex systems that have several interconnected causes and effects.

CIRCULAR MERGER

Merging companies with different product offerings, increasing the market for product and service offerings to the same group of targeted customers.

CIRCULATING CAPITAL

Assets that continually flow within an organization, such as raw materials, work in process, finished goods, and cash at hand.

CIRCULATION EXPENSES

Financial expenses for the developing, maintaining and increasing circulation of a periodical. Associated financial expense for the circulation of a periodical activities of creating, maintaining and increasing sales.

CITIZENSHIP TEST

An IRS test ensuring that a person listed as a dependent on a tax filer’s return is also a citizen. The person must meet certain criteria including being a natural-born or naturalized

CITY CODE

Code that identifies cities and their airports. Known as a three-letter IATA code. Examples are NYC for New York, LGA for La Guardia, and JFK for John F. Kennedy.

CIVIL LAW

1. In the modern Western world, it is one of the two major legal systems; the other is common law. Taken from Roman law, it is used in continental Europe, their former

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

US residents, 16 years of age or older, not employed by any government or military institution, and either employed and unemployed. .

CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONAL POPULATION

US civilians, 16 or older, who are not in a institution, such criminal, mental, or other types of facilities, or an active duty military personnel. Civilian unemployment rate is included in the

CLADDING

Sheet metal or other material used to enhance the durability or other properties of other metal or material (called substrate) . The cladding is bonded electrically, mechanically, or through other process.

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