Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• RETAINER - Under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act it is common for the Trustee in Bankruptcy to ask fo...
  
  
• RETAINING WALL - A wall built to hold back or support a bank of earth.
  
  
• RETALIATORY EVICTION - An eviction due to a tenant's complaints to the landlord, a public agency or ten...
  
  
• RETENTION - The number of units allocated to an underwriting syndicate member less the units held back ...
  
  
• RETENTION RATE - The percent of trailing 12-month earnings that have been ploughed back into the compan...
  
  
• RETENTIONS - Portions of contracts that are not paid until all contract provisions are satisfied. Somet...
  
  
• RETIRE - To extinguish a security, as in paying off a debt.
  
  
• RETIRE (A DEBT) - To fulfill one's obligations under a loan or mortgage so that the lender has no furth...
  
  
• RETIRE A DEBT - When you pay off your home loan completely, thereby fulfilling your obligation under th...
  
  
• RETIRED BENEFITS BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION ACT - passed June 16, 1988. Allows the debtor to continue to pay...