Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• WAC - See weighted-average coupon.
  
  
• WACC - See: Weighted average cost of capital
  
  
• WAGE - actual remuneration paid to an employee for services rendered. Minimum wages, in the U.S.A., are...
  
  
• WAGE ASSIGNMENT - a clause in a loan contract that allows the lender to obtain the borrower's wages in ...
  
  
• WAGE GARNISHMENT - a process granted by a court order by which a lender obtains, directly from an emplo...
  
  
• WAGE-EARNER BANKRUPTCY - (see Chapter 13 and personal bankruptcy)
  
  
• WAGE-PUSH INFLATION - Inflation caused by skyrocketing wages.
  
  
• WAITING PERIOD - Time during which the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) studies a firm's regist...
  
  
• WAIVE - To knowingly abandon, relinquish or surrender a right, benefit or claim.
  
  
• WAIVE ESCROWS - Authorization by the lender for the borrower to pay taxes and insurance directly. This ...