Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• EKISTICS - the science of human settlements, including regional, city and community planning and dwelli...
  
  
• ELASTICITY - Refers to the economic concept of the ability or comparative ease to adjust supply or dema...
  
  
• ELASTICITY OF AN OPTION - Percentage change in the value of an option given a 1% change in the value of...
  
  
• ELASTICITY OF DEMAND - The degree of buyers' responsiveness to price changes. Elasticity is measured as...
  
  
• ELASTICITY OF SUPPLY - The degree of producers' responsiveness to price changes. Elasticity is measured...
  
  
• ELDERLY APPLICANT - As defined in the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, a person 62 or older.
  
  
• ELECT - The conversion of a conditional order into a market order.
  
  
• ELECTION PERIOD - The period of time during which the holder can elect to extend and extendible bond, o...
  
  
• ELECTIVE BENEFITS - A lump sum that the insured can elect to take for some conditions, rather than coll...
  
  
• ELECTRIC UTILITY - An enterprise that is engaged in the generation, transmission, and/or distribution o...