Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• ALL-INCLUSIVE ENCUMBRANCE - See wraparound mortgage
  
  
• ALL-OR-NONE - An order which must be filled in its entirety or not at all.
  
  
• ALL-OR-NONE UNDERWRITING - An arrangement whereby a security issue is cancelled if the underwriter is u...
  
  
• ALLIED MEMBER - A partner or stockholder of a firm that is a member of the NYSE, the partner or stockho...
  
  
• ALLIGATOR SPREAD - The term used to describe a spread in the options market that generates such a large...
  
  
• ALLL - An acronym for allowance for loan and lease losses.
  
  
• ALLOCATE - to distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose. Examples: a. spread a ...
  
  
• ALLOCATION - The amount of stock in an initial public offering (IPO) granted by the underwriter to an i...
  
  
• ALLOCATION (ABSTRACTION) METHOD - Estimating the value of land only by deducting the value of the build...
  
  
• ALLOCATION-OF-INCOME RULES - US tax provisions that define how income and deductions are to be allocate...