Dealership

Authorising a dealer to sell a firm’s merchandise in a particular area.

Dealer loader

A premium or bonus offered to a dealer, in cash, kind or as gift, for a specified level of seller performance.

Dealer

1) anyone engaged in trade. 2) A wholesaler on the stock market.

Dead weight debt

A dead weight debt is a debt that is incurred to pay the current expenditure only and not to create any asset or repay other old and urgent debts. Such debts are symptoms of financial weakness and bad fiscal management.

Dead-line

A time limit set for completion of an activity.

Deadhead

To drive an empty vehicle to a destination to pick up freight, passengers, etc.

Day order

A day order is the order whose validity period is limited to the day on which it is entered, If the order is not matched during the day it gets cancelled automatically at the end of the day.

Day of grace

In insurance, it represents the delay in days allowed in respect of payment of premium as a favour. Such grace period allowed in the repayment of other instruments.

DCR

Duff and phelps credit rating Indian Private Limited.Comparatively a new entrant in Credit Rating business with a market share of about 5%.

Dated securities

Those bonds that bear a specific date regarding their convertibility into ready cash.

Date line

A line at the head of a letter showing the date and place of writing.

Date

1) the present day. 2) (Informal) Appointment.

Data processing

Any operation involving the handling, sorting, merging or computing of data.

Database

Any organized collection of data from which information can be extracted by specifying the relevant criteria or selection. In computer terms, an application program through which data files are stored, sorted and retrieved.

Data base

A structure set of data kept stored in a computer.

Data bank

Any source or store of data.

Data

1) Quantities or characters fed to a computer. 2) Facts collected for analysing.

Damages liquidated

A penalty chargeable to a party on breach of trust.

Damages

Penalty awarded by a court or arbitrator for loss incurred due to another’s action.

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