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  2. Allotment (travel industry) - Wikipedia

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    Tour operators obtain discounts, through allotment or commitment contracts, primarily depend on the firm size and the bargaining power exercised; they can vary from 10% to 50% according to the period of the year, the destination, the quantity and quality of services contracted upon. Some big tour operators are able to obtain up to 70% of discount.

  3. Allotment - Wikipedia

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    Allotment may refer to: Allotment (Dawes Act), an area of land held by the US Government for the benefit of an individual Native American, under the Dawes Act of 1887; Allotment (finance), a method by which a company allocates over-subscribed shares; Allotment (gardening), an area of land rented out for non-commercial gardening or farming

  4. Acreage allotment - Wikipedia

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    A farm's acreage allotment, under provisions of permanent commodity price support law, is its share, based on its previous production, of the national acreage needed to produce sufficient supplies of a particular crop. [1]

  5. Modal verb - Wikipedia

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    A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestion, order, obligation, necessity, possibility or advice. Modal verbs generally accompany the base (infinitive) form of another verb having semantic content. [1]

  6. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    British English meanings Meanings common to British and American English American English meanings daddy longlegs, daddy-long-legs crane fly: daddy long-legs spider: Opiliones: dead (of a cup, glass, bottle or cigarette) empty, finished with very, extremely ("dead good", "dead heavy", "dead rich") deceased

  7. Burke Act - Wikipedia

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    Burke Act; Other short titles: General Allotment Act Amendment of 1906: Long title: An Act to amend section six of an act approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and ...

  8. Power of acceptance - Wikipedia

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    Once an offeree has begun the performance in reliance on the unilateral offer, an implied obligation may apply to the offeror that the promise cannot be revoked. [27] In the English case Errington v Wood, [28] a father bought a house for his son and daughter-in-law to live in. He paid one-third of the price, and said to his son and daughter-in ...

  9. Allotment (gardening) - Wikipedia

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    An allotment garden in Petsamo, Tampere, Finland. The Luxembourg-based Office International du Coin de Terre et des Jardins Familiaux, representing three million European allotment gardeners since 1926, describes the socio-cultural and economic functions of allotment gardens as offering an improved quality of life, an enjoyable and profitable hobby, relaxation, and contact with nature.