Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NUMBER - A nine-digit number assigned by the IRS for businesses, estates and tr...
  
  
• EMPLOYER MATCHING CONTRIBUTION - The amount, if any, a company contributes on an employee's behalf to t...
  
  
• EMPLOYER SPONSORED RETIREMENT PLAN - Employers may offer their employees either defined benefit or defi...
  
  
• EMPLOYER-ASSISTED HOUSING - A special Fannie Mae housing initiative that offers several different ways ...
  
  
• EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT - A document evidencing formal employment between employer and employee or between ...
  
  
• EMPLOYMENT EQUITY ACT - A federal statute that requires employers with 100 or more employees to elimina...
  
  
• EMPLOYMENT RATE - The percentage of the labor force that is employed. The employment rate is one of the...
  
  
• EMPOWERMENT ZONE/ENTERPRISE COMMUNITIES (EZ/EC) - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development prog...
  
  
• EMPTY HEAD AND PURE HEART TEST - Securities and Exchange Commission rule that allows only the bidder of...
  
  
• EMPTY NESTERS - Middle-aged or older couples whose children have grown up and "left the nest" to live o...