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1. ADR in A, n. View full entry 1956
...American depository receipt....
2. AIM in A, n. View full entry 1994
...Alternative Investment Market....
3. APR in A, n. View full entry 1972
...annual(ized) percentage rate (of interest on money lent on credit)....
4. ARP in A, n. View full entry 1985
...adjustable-rate preferred; cf. preferred...
5. ARPS in A, n. View full entry 1982
...adjustable-rate preferred stock (or share)....
6. ATM in A, n. View full entry 1975
...automatic (also automated) teller machine (see automatic tellerautomatic)....
7. abandonee, n. View full entry 1804
...A person to whom anything is formally or legally abandoned; spec. (in marine insurance) the underwriters to whom all interest in property insured is relinquished after a loss (cf. ...
8. abdicate, v. View full entry 1755
...trans.Insurance. To surrender to an underwriter the right of ownership of (goods insured). Obs.rare....
9. abecedarium, n. View full entry 1870
...In the work of British economist and logician W. S. Jevons: the series of possible combinations of letters in a system for solving logical problems; (also) the mechanical device invented by Jevons...
10. absolute auction in absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry 1870
...an auction with no reserve price or other stipulations....
11. absorption costing in absorption, n. View full entry 1953
...a method of calculating the cost of a product or enterprise by taking into account all anticipated production expenses, including overheads....
12. abstinence, n. View full entry 1836
...Polit. Econ. The practice of abstaining from or delaying expenditure in order to accumulate capital. Obs....
13. ABTA | Abta, n. View full entry 1950
...The Association of British Travel Agents, established in 1950....
14. abye, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To buy, purchase (something); to pay a price for (something); to obtain (something) at the cost of labour or suffering. Also (and in earliest use) Theol.: to redeem,...
15. acatallactic, n. and adj. View full entry 1842
...A matter unconnected with exchange, esp. of money. Obs.rare....
16. acatallactic, n. and adj. View full entry 1865
...Not concerned with or involving exchange, esp. of money....
17. † acate, n. View full entry ?1406
...Buying, purchasing, purchase. Also in figurative context....
18. acceleration clause in acceleration, n. View full entry 1880
...a provision in a loan agreement, mortgage, etc., that stipulates the immediate repayment of a debt to the lender upon breach of contract....
19. accept, v. View full entry 1579
...trans. To acknowledge the receipt of and agree to pay (a bill of exchange or a draft). Formerly also †intr. with of (obs.)....
20. accept, v. View full entry 1707
...intr. To acknowledge the receipt of and agree to pay a bill of exchange or a draft....
