Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• RABBI TRUST - a nonqualified deferred compensation plan whereby an employer and employee agree to defer...
  
  
• RACK PRICE - Price charged by a supplier to a customer that buys transport truck lots at a terminal, on...
  
  
• RAD - Is the Receiver-Authorized Delivery service.
  
  
• RADAR ALERT - Close monitoring of trading patterns in a company's stock by senior managers to uncover u...
  
  
• RADON - A radioactive gas found in some homes that in sufficient concentrations can cause health proble...
  
  
• RAFTER - A roof structural support system using "2 by" wood components that are nailed together (as opp...
  
  
• RAIDER - Individual or corporate investor who intends to take control of a company (often ostensibly fo...
  
  
• RAIDERS - Investors who attempt to acquire other firms in an unfriendly takeover.
  
  
• RAINBOW OPTION - Definition: An option that has several risk factors of the same type, e.g., two stock ...
  
  
• RAINMAKER - A valuable employee, manager or subcontracted person who brings new business to a company.