Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
- seed money
- capital needed to set up a new business or enterprise
- proportional tax
- any tax in which the rate is constant as the amount subject to taxation increases
- commercial letter of credit
- a letter of credit given to a business concern for commercial purposes
- gross revenue
- income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time
- general lien
- a lien on all the property owned by a debtor and not just a specific property
- immediate payment
- prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check
- adjusting entry
- an accounting entry made at the end of an accounting period to allocate items between accounting periods
- fee
- an interest in land capable of being inherited
- blank cheque
- a check that has been signed but with the amount payable left blank
- gold standard
- a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of gold
- bestowal
- a gift that is bestowed or conferred
- legal fee
- a fee paid for legal service
- cash surrender value
- the amount that the insurance company will pay on a given life insurance policy if the policy is cancelled prior to the death of the insured
- VAT
- a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production
- hush money
- a bribe paid to someone to insure that something is kept secret
- nickel
- five dollars worth of a drug
- fivepence
- a coin worth five cents
- belongings
- something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone
- pawn ticket
- a pawnbroker's receipt for articles taken as security
- pension
- a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working
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