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Definitions (5/6) - Grouped by first letter "B"
50 Definitions Grouped by first letter "B" ➔ Glossary of frequently used abbreviations...
Place of business, other than the head office, which is located in the reporting country and has been established by a credit institution legally ...
Firms marketing differentiated products frequently develop and compete on the basis of brands or labels (Coca Cola vs. Pepsi-Cola, etc.). Each of ...
The importance that consumers attach to a brand name. Consumers often perceive products with certain brand names as preferable to similar products ...
The term in a product specification that indicates that the good specified is without a brand label or with a brand label that is meaningless to ...
A company that is used to register ownership of shipping vessels or to raise capital through the issuance of securities.
A breach occurs when microdata access procedures and/or rules are broken, affecting the confidentiality of respondent information. A breach can be ...
Attribute that describes the reason for a break in a time series.
ENTERPRISE - Break-up involves one enterprise before and more than one enterprise after the event. In a break-up, the enterprise is divided in such a ...
Break-up involves one enterprise group before and more than one enterprise group after the event. In a break-up, the enterprise group is divided in ...
Break-up involves one enterprise before and more than one enterprise after the event. In a break up, the enterprise is divided in such a way that ...
A breakdown of turnover by product is necessary in order to calculate useful aggregates for national accounts or to allow a valuation of market shares ...
Establishment for the production of eggs for hatching intended for the production of utility chicks.
The act of taking or receiving something with the intention of influencing the recipient in some way that is favourable to the party providing the ...
Requesting and/or accepting material or personal benefits, or the promise thereof, in connection with the performance of a public function for an ...
A country that provides the link or bridge between two or more separate comparisons involving different groups of countries. The bridge country ...
Days (up to two) lying between a public holiday and a weekend.
A measure of the money supply in an economy, with broad coverage. Broad money usually includes national currency and deposits held by residents in ...
Broadband lines are defined as those with a capacity equal or higher than 144 Kbits/s. Various technologies are covered; ADSL, cable modem as well as ...
All trees classified botanically as Angiospermae. They are sometimes referred to as "non-coniferous" or "hardwoods".
A non-agglomerating coal with a gross calorific value of less than 23 860 kJ/kg (5 700 kcal/kg) in a condition free of wet ash and containing more ...
Brown coal is a product aggregate equal to the sum of sub-bituminous coal and lignite.
BKB is a composition fuel manufactured from lignite or sub-bituminous coal, produced by briquetting under high pressure without the addition of a ...
A statement of the projected revenues, proposed expenditures, and planned financing of any surplus or deficit of an entity, especially government.
Refers to the process whereby an organisation will plan for its future financial activities.
A zone or area of a specified distance around a geographical feature (points, lines or polygons). Buffer operations are one of the fundamental ...
In this case, the non-government party is only committed to build an asset and deliver it to government, according to its requirements (normally ...
Including windows and doors and coverings thereof as well as cellular wood panels, assembled parquet panels, shingles and shakes.
A building is defined in this context as any independent structure containing one or more dwellings, rooms or other spaces, covered by a roof and ...
Most elementary item of a statistical classification, i.e. the most detailed code for a variable.
2006 definition A building permit is an authorisation to start work on a building project. As such, a permit is the final stage of planning and ...
2006 definition It is the objective of the number of dwelling building permit index to show the future development of construction activity in terms ...
2006 definition It is the objective of the useful floor area building permit index to show the future development of construction activity in terms of ...
Buildings other than dwellings include whole buildings or parts of buildings not designated as dwellings. Fixtures, facilities and equipment that are ...
In land use and agriculture statistics, comprises residential land, industrial land, quarries, pits and mines, commercial land, land used by public ...
Ship designed with a single deck and holds for the bulk carriage of loose dry cargo of a homogenous nature.
Normally refers to "dry bulk" cargoes as opposed to tankers that carry "wet bulk" cargoes. The major bulk cargoes, including coal, grain and iron ore, ...
Bulk carrier arranged for the carriage of either bulk dry cargoes or liquid cargoes in the same cargo spaces but not simultaneously.
Substance which contributes to the volume of a foodstuff without contributing significantly to its available energy value.
Waste which, due to its bulky character, requires special considerations for its management.
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The repayment of principal in a single payment at the maturity of the debt.
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Bundling is also referred to as package tie-in and tends to occur when one product is sold in combination with another as a requirement for the sale. ...
Bundling of objectives occurs when a single type of benefit serves various distinct social risks or needs. Bundling can also occur between social and ...
A cargo and passenger ship makes a bunker call when it anchors or berths in a port to take on bunker oil or supplies.
Administrative burdens on enterprises are seen as impediments to their competitiveness. They result from all administrative demands. Requests by ...
Gaining unauthorized access to a part of a building/dwelling or other premises with or without the use of force against the building/dwelling, with ...
Official document, usually issued only for a legally registered death, authorizing the removal of the dead body (corpse) to the cemetery or other ...
Passenger road motor vehicle designed to carry more than 24 persons (including the driver), and with provision to carry seated as well as standing ...
Part of a carriageway designated for buses and distinguished from the rest of the carriageway by longitudinal road markings.