Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• WAGE-EARNER BANKRUPTCY - (see Chapter 13 and personal bankruptcy)
  
  
• WAGE-PUSH INFLATION - Inflation caused by skyrocketing wages.
  
  
• WAITING PERIOD - Time during which the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) studies a firm's regist...
  
  
• WAIVE - To knowingly abandon, relinquish or surrender a right, benefit or claim.
  
  
• WAIVE ESCROWS - Authorization by the lender for the borrower to pay taxes and insurance directly. This ...
  
  
• WAIVER - The agreement of a lender to overlook a borrower’s failure to meet one or more conditions atta...
  
  
• WAIVER OF EXEMPTION - a loan contract clause that contains a waiver or limitation of the borrower's rig...
  
  
• WAIVER OF PREMIUM - A provision in an insurance policy that allows payment of insurance premiums to be ...
  
  
• WAL - See Weighted Average Life.
  
  
• WALA - See weighted-average loan age.