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  • Additional Benefit

    Hierarchical Display of Additional benefit Social Questions > Social protection > Social security > Social-security benefit Meaning of Additional benefit Overview and more information about Additional benefit For a more comprehensive understanding of Additional benefit, see in the general […]

  • Oecd

    Notion of Oecd The meaning of Oecd may be as follows: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, organization of 29 industrialized countries Definition of Oecd The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Oecd: Canada is a member of the […]

  • EDIFACT

    EDIFACT in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, edifact is: Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport. Developed under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE). The entries on trade policy are here. It is defined officially as a […]

  • Fundamental Breach

    Fundamental breach in Law Enforcement Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of fundamental breach. Fundamental Breach in Maritime Law Note: There is more information on maritime/admiralty law […]

  • Carmack Amendment

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Carmack amendment Meaning of Carmack amendment The purpose of the Carmack amendment to the Hepburn Act was to do away with the diflnculties shippers had encounteired in seeking to recover damages to […]

  • Bumping

    The practice whereby employees with greater seniority displace those with less seniority when layoffs occur. In the military, being bumped out of some privilege by a person of higher rank, e.g., off a military transport or from desirable housing, is still common. Also, the airline practice of…

  • Railroad, Railway

    A road constructed of crossties on which iron rails are placed and dedicated to public use under the general law regulating public highways. See Beasley v Aberdeen and R.R. Co., 59 S.E. 60, 145 N.C. 272. When spoken of as a public highway, the term refers to the immovable structure stretching […]

  • Articles Of Commerce

    Commodities shipped or forwarded from one state to another and put up for sale. An article becomes an article of interstate commerce when it becomes an article of trade from one state to another, and this does not occur until it begins to move and this movement does not begin until the article […]