minority

  • 71minority interests — arise when a company has a subsidiary company (See also subsidiary) in which it does not own all of the shares. The shareholders apart from the holding company are referred to as the minority interests. For example, where a holding company owns… …

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  • 72Minority Business Development Agency — UK US noun (ABBREVIATION MBDA) GOVERNMENT ► in the US, a government organization that encourages minority businesses to start and helps them to grow: » The Minority Business Development Agency has funded a network of business development centers …

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  • 73minority business enterprise — UK US noun [C] (US COMMERCE ► a business that is more than fifty percent owned and controlled by a member of a minority (= a group whose members are of a different race, or have a different culture or religion to that of most other people in that …

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  • 74minority protection — rules developed in order to safeguard minority shareholders from possible abuse of power by holders of the majority of shares in a limited company. The remedies that are available include: just and equitable winding up; applying for relief for… …

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  • 75minority advantage — minority advantage. См. преимущество меньшинства. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …

    Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • 76minority group — minority (def. 3). [1960 65] * * * …

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  • 77minority stockholder — n. A stockholder who holds very few shares in a corporation and thus is unable to vote effectively for corporate directors. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 …

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  • 78Minority Report —    Film de science fiction de Steven Spielberg d après le roman de Philip K. Dick, avec Tom Cruise, Kathryn Morris, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow, Spencer Treat Clark, Peter Stormare, Blake Bashoff.   Pays: États Unis   Date de… …

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  • 79minority carrier — noun (electronics) In a semiconductor, the type of carrier electrons or holes which carries the lesser degree of measured current • • • Main Entry: ↑minor …

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  • 80minority waiter — (Sheridan) Meaning uncertain (perh a waiter, or a tidewaiter, out of employment) • • • Main Entry: ↑wait …

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