quarter

en-noun

quarter (countable and uncountable, plural quarters)

From Middle English quarter, from Anglo-Norman quarter, from Latin quartarius, from quartus. Compare Spanish cuarto (“room, quarters; quarter”). Doublet of quartier.

cog

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The FBI began publishing national quarterly crime reports last year, but has not done so for the first two quarters of 2021, stating that they require at least 60% of agencies to submit NIBRS data in order to publish quarterly data.

2021 September 27, Priya Krishnakumar, “Murders rose sharply in 2020 but data is lacking across much of the country”, in CNN:

(now chiefly financial) A fourth part of the year; 3 months; a term or season.


force

en-noun

force (countable and uncountable, plural forces)

From Middle English force, fors, forse, from Old French force, from Late Latin fortia, a noun derived from the neuter plural of Latin fortis (“strong”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”).

der

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

ուժեր

group that aims to attack, control, or constrain

ҡеүәт

ability to attack, control, or constrain

force of mortality

(financial mathematics, actuarial science) The annualized instantaneous rate of change at a particular timepoint.


loss

en-noun

loss (countable and uncountable, plural losses)

From Middle English los, from Old English los (“damage, destruction, loss”), from Proto-West Germanic *los, from Proto-Germanic *lusą (“dissolution, break-up, loss”), from Proto-Indo-European *lews- (“to cut, sunder, separate, loose, lose”).
Cognate with Icelandic los (“dissolution, looseness, break-up”), Old English lor, forlor (“loss, ruin”), Middle High German verlor (“loss, ruin”). More at lose.

cog

The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss, when this difference is positive.

(financial, countable) The sum an entity loses on balance.


vest

en-verb

vest (third-person singular simple present vests, present participle vesting, simple past and past participle vested)

vests (present singular third-person)
vesting (participle present)
vested (participle past)
vested (past)

From French veste (“a vest, jacket”), from Latin vestis (“a garment, gown, robe, vestment, clothing, vesture”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis, from *wes- (“to be dressed”) (English wear). Cognate with Sanskrit वस्त्र (vastra) and Spanish vestir.

der

My pension vests at the end of the month and then I can take it with me when I quit.

If you doubt that you'll stick around at the company long enough for your options to vest, you should discount the value for that uncertainty as well.

2005, Kaye A. Thomas, Consider Your Options, page 104:

2007, Ransey Guy Cole, Jr. (United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit), Roger Miller Music, Inc. v. Sony ATV Publishing, LLC
Sony interpreted 17 U.S.C. § 304 as requiring that the author be alive at the start of the copyright renewal term for the author’s prior assignments to vest.

(financial, intransitive) To become vested, to become permanent.


nonconsolidated

(financial) Including the financial data of only the parent company.

nekonsolidovaný

including the financial data of only the parent company


steels

(financial) stocks or stock quotations concerning steel-manufacturing companies


gross up

en-verb

gross up (third-person singular simple present grosses up, present participle grossing up, simple past and past participle grossed up)

grosses up (present singular third-person)
grossing up (participle present)
grossed up (participle past)
grossed up (past)

(transitive, financial) To convert into a gross figure; to total (up).