most-favored-tenant clause. A commercial-lease provision ensuring that the tenant will be given the benefit of any negotiating concessions given to other tenants. [Cases: Landlord and Tenant 39. C.J.S. Landlord and Tenant § 234.]
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透支 英语：overdraft (UK) 法语：découvert (en banque), avance bancaire, facilités de caisse 德语：Kontoüberziehung (skredit) 意大利语：(concessione di) scoperto di conto corrente 西班牙语：crédito bancario
特许权 英语：concession 法语：concession 德语：Konzession, Bewilligung, Vergünstigung 意大利语：agevolazione, privilegio 西班牙语：concesión
moral law. A collection of principles defining right and wrong conduct; a standard to which an action must conform to be right or virtuous. “It quite often happens that the moral law disapproves of something which the secular permits as a concession to human frailty.” Patrick Devlin, The Enforcement of Morals 78 (1968).
spread, n. 1. Banking. The difference between the interest rate that a financial institution must pay to attract deposits and the rate at which money can be loaned. 2. Securities. The difference between the highest price a buyer will pay for a security (the bid price) and the lowest price at which a seller will
price discrimination. The practice of offering identical or similar goods to different buyers at different prices when the costs of producing the goods are the same. • Price discrimination can violate antitrust laws if it reduces competition. It may be either direct, as when a seller charges different prices to different buyers, or indirect, as
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reciprocity (res-[schwa]-pros-i-tee). 1. Mutual or bilateral action (the Arthurs stopped receiving social invitations from friends because of their lack of reciprocity). 2. The mutual concession of advantages or privileges for purposes of commercial or diplomatic relations (Texas and Louisiana grant reciprocity to each other’s citizens in qualifying for in-state tuition rates). — Also termed mutuality
collective bargaining. Negotiations between an employer and the representatives of organized employees to determine the conditions of employment, such as wages, hours, discipline, and fringe benefits. See CONCESSION BARGAINING. [Cases: Labor Relations 171. C.J.S. Labor Relations § 148.] “Collective bargaining means the joint determination by employees and employers of the problems of the em-ployment relationship.
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diplomatic protection. Protection given by one country’s representatives to a person, usu. its citizen, against another country’s alleged violation of international law. “The term diplomatic protection is not altogether precise. First, not only diplomatic agents and missions and other foreign offices may and do exercise diplomatic protection, but also, at a different level, consuls, and,
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Negotiations between an employer and the representatives of organized employees to determine the conditions of employment, such as wages, hours, discipline, and fringe benefits. See CONCESSION BARGAINING. [Cases: Labor Relations 171. C.J.S. Labor Relations § 148.]
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