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An increase; something that accumulates, especially an amount of money that periodically accumulates for a specific purpose
adj
Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job.
v
(transitive) To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
n
A price or cost, as in up the ante.
n
(obsolete) The allowance paid to a public officer.
v
(transitive, finance) To engage in arbitrage in, between, or among
n
(obsolete, London Stock Exchange) A fee paid by a seller on settlement day either to the buyer or to a third party who lends stock, when the seller wishes to defer settlement until the next settlement day.
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(transitive, intransitive) To exchange goods or services without involving money.
v
To hand down; to transmit.
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(transitive) To take the place of; replace.
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(transitive, obsolete) To allot; assign.
v
(transitive) To issue a command; to tell.
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(transitive) To act as a broker in; to arrange or negotiate.
v
(transitive) To manage (something) according to a budget, so as to save money.
n
An order to report for military service.
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(by extension) To exchange possession of any commodity or idea for cash.
n
(uncountable) Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
v
To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
adj
To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;
v
(transitive, business) To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.
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(obsolete, London Stock Exchange, transitive, intransitive) To charge (a buyer) a fee to defer settlement until the next settlement day.
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To use coupons to a such extent that makes the user actively looking for coupons in magazines, online and whatever they can be found.
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(transitive) To accept (something or a piece of information) as a basis for a decision.
n
The act of conveying something.
n
An individual brought in at short notice to replace a member of staff, a player in a sporting team, etc.
v
Obsolete form of enjoin. [(transitive, chiefly literary) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.]
v
(intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
v
Obsolete form of exchange. [(transitive) To trade or barter.]
v
(Scotland, law, transitive) To exchange; used with reference to transfers of land.
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(commercial, transitive) To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
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(Australia, New Zealand) A wage adjustment or an improvement in working conditions made as a consequence of one already made in a similar or related occupation.
n
(Cambridge University slang) A social meal between two university societies (a swap) held at a formal hall; generally less associated with drinking games and rowdy behaviour.
n
(finance) A direct agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specific point in the future; distinguished from a futures contract in that the latter is standardized and traded on an exchange.
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(transitive) To produce or sell services as a freelance.
v
(finance, business) to engage or partake in the practice of front running
adj
Loaded at the start with fees; especially of certain mutual funds and other securities.
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(dated) To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.
n
(in Europe) A transfer of funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions.
n
(countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
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(military, India, dated) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
n
That which is put in, as in an amount.
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To obtain goods or services by insourcing.
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(Britain, rare) To pay by instalments.
n
The people taken into an organisation or establishment at a particular time.
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(finance) To transfer stocks between brokers within an organization, rather than through the exchange.
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(rare) An entrant, especially one who enters on some public duty.
v
(transitive) To make an invoice for (goods or services).
v
(transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
n
(finance, often attributive) A kind of exotic option whose payoff depends on the optimal (maximum or minimum) underlying asset's price occurring over the life of the option.
v
(figuratively, of a person) To handle multiple tasks at once.
v
(transitive) To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement.
v
(medicine, transitive or intransitive) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.
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(economics) To produce, create, or complete.
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(business) To transfer the responsibility for a specific task to a third-party service provider.
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(transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
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(transitive) To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of.
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(intransitive) To repeat an activity in this way.
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(transitive) To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.
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(UK, law, obsolete) The rendering of a service
n
The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction
v
(transitive) To perform a particular process on a thing.
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(intransitive) To take part in a procession.
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(law) The offer by a party of what he has in view as to an intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a contract.
n
(business, economics) A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity.
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(transitive) To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price.
n
One who sets the rates to be charged for something.
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(US, politics) To come to a bipartisan agreement; to compromise with the adversary party.
n
A leveraged recapitalization accomplished by increasing the debt to equity ratio.
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To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; to mark a bill as having been paid.
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(finance) The expense chargeable on a bill of exchange or draft that has been dishonoured in a foreign country and returned to its country of origin, and then taken up.
v
(transitive) To enter (a payment) into a cash register, or till in a shop, or record a credit- or debit-card payment.
adj
of funds, that may only be used for a previously specified purpose
n
(finance) A form of barter that involves the sale of an unused asset and the purchase of the same asset back again, or a similar one, typically used in accounting fraud.
n
The process or state of being seconded, the temporary transfer of a person from their normal duty to another assignment.
n
The process by which something is sourced, or obtained from another place.
n
(business) The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.
n
Transfer of a fixed amount from one bank account to another at fixed intervals (e.g. monthly bill payment)
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(transitive) To subject; to put through a process.
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(transitive) To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.
n
(Canada, US) A meet for the purpose of trading, including buying and selling or swapping (bartering); a flea market.
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(informal) an opportunity to make a swap
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(transitive) To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
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(business) The supply of goods or services only on condition that the purchaser acquires other goods or services from a particular third party.
n
(business) The extent of adoption of a new product or service, typically measured in number of customers or level of revenue achieved.
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(transitive, with for) To give (something) in exchange (for).
v
To give a piece of merchandise as part of the payment or trade for something new.
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Synonym of change places
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(sports) To exchange a lower selection in a player draft for a higher one.
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property used as part payment for a new purchase
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(US) A compliment heard about another person, offered to be repeated to that person in exchange for another repeated compliment about the speaker.
v
(transitive) To do, carry through, conduct or perform some action.
n
The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).
v
(transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
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(chiefly law, computing, medicine, formal) To transmit.
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(transitive) To impart, convey or hand down something by inheritance or heredity.
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One of a series of allotments (of funds for a certain purpose).
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(intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
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(transitive) To get into (a specific situation) through a treaty.
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(transitive) To offer, usually unprompted.
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action of the verb to vote
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(transitive, business) To improve through collaboration.
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(transitive, accounting) To make a downward adjustment in the value of an asset.
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(accounting) To record a notional expense such as amortization or depreciation.
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