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  2. Closeout (sale) - Wikipedia

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    Closeout (sale) A closeout or clearance sale (also called a closing down sale in the United Kingdom [ 1]) is a discount sale of inventory either by retail or wholesale. It may be that a product is not selling well, or that the retailer is closing because of relocation, a fire (a fire sale ), over-ordering, or especially because of bankruptcy. [ 2]

  3. List of U.S. security clearance terms - Wikipedia

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    Investigations. The following investigations are used in clearance determinations: [ 12] ANACI (Access National Agency Check with Inquiries) – Initial Confidential, Secret, L, LX; only used for civilian employees. NACLC (National Agency Check with Law and Credit) – Initial Confidential, Secret, L, LX; reinvestigations.

  4. Freight forwarder - Wikipedia

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    A freight forwarder or forwarding agent is a person or a company who co-ordinates and organizes the movement of shipments on behalf of a shipper (party that arranges an item for shipment) by liaising with carriers (party that transports goods). The carriers may use a variety of shipping modes, including ships, airplanes, trucks, and railroads ...

  5. Auction - Wikipedia

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    An auction is usually a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from the lowest bidder. Some exceptions to this definition exist and are described in the section about different types. The branch of economic theory dealing with ...

  6. Bureau of Indian Standards - Wikipedia

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    Bureau of Indian Standards. The Bureau of Indian Standards ( BIS) is the National Standards Body of India under Department of Consumer affairs, [ 2] Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Government of India. [ 3] It is established by the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016 which came into effect on 12 October 2017. [ 4]

  7. SPARC - Wikipedia

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    SPARC ( Scalable Processor ARChitecture) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture originally developed by Sun Microsystems. [ 1][ 2] Its design was strongly influenced by the experimental Berkeley RISC system developed in the early 1980s. First developed in 1986 and released in 1987, [ 3][ 2] SPARC was one of ...

  8. Security clearance - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, a security clearance is an official determination that an individual may access information classified by the United States Government. Security clearances are hierarchical; each level grants the holder access to information in that level and the levels below it.

  9. Bohni - Wikipedia

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    Bohni ( Hindustani: बोहनी or بوہنی) is a social and commercial custom of India and Pakistan that is based on the belief that the first sale of a day (or other selling period) establishes the seller's luck for subsequent choti transactions during the remainder of the day. [1] [2] In practical terms this means that sellers try to ...