Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• EMS - See: European Monetary System
  
  
• EMU - Economic and Monetary Union of Europe. EMU is sometimes used more loosely to mean European Moneta...
  
  
• ENABLING ACTS - State legislation that confers zoning powers on municipal governments. (See zoning)
  
  
• ENCAPSULATION - A method of controlling environmental contamination by sealing off a dangerous substanc...
  
  
• ENCOUNTER - Each time a person receives medical services.
  
  
• ENCROACHMENT - An unauthorized invasion or intrusion of an improvement or other real property onto anot...
  
  
• ENCRYPTION - A method for ensuring the privacy and security of a consumer's personal finance informatio...
  
  
• ENCUMBER - to burden a parcel of land with a lien or a charge such as a mortgage.
  
  
• ENCUMBERED - when an asset is owned by one party subject to the legal claims of another party. One exam...
  
  
• ENCUMBRANCE - Any claim, lien, charge or liability attached to and binding on real property that may le...