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  2. Offered load - Wikipedia

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    In the mathematical theory of probability, offered load is a concept in queuing theory. The offered load is a measure of traffic in a queue. The offered load is given by Little's law: the arrival rate into the queue (symbolized with λ) multiplied by the mean holding time (symbolized by τ), equals the average amount of time spent by items in the queue.

  3. Hobson's choice - Wikipedia

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    A Hobson's choice is a free choice in which only one thing is actually offered. The term is often used to describe an illusion that choices are available. The best known Hobson's choice is "I'll give you a choice: take it or leave it", wherein "leaving it" is strongly undesirable.

  4. Glossary of mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers - Wikipedia

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    Such contracts are offered to make unfriendly takeovers expensive. Greenmail To buy a large number of shares of a company with either of the two motives; to sell them at a higher rate to a corporate raider, or to offer them to the company for a similar profit. An offer which the management will find hard to refuse as its sale to the raider will ...

  5. Offering - Wikipedia

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    Direct public offering, a method by which a business can offer stock directly to the public; Follow-on offering, an issuance of stock after the company's initial public offering; Initial public offering, a public offering for the first time; Public offering, the offering of securities of a company to the public

  6. Offer - Wikipedia

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    Firm offer, an offer that is irrevocable for a certain period or until a certain time or occurrence of a certain event; Offer and acceptance, elements of a contract; Offer of judgment, a United States tort reform law aimed at controlling unnecessary litigation and at encouraging settlement; Settlement offer, an offer to end a civil lawsuit out ...

  7. Proffer - Wikipedia

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    A proffer is an offer made prior to any formal negotiations. In a trial, to proffer (sometimes profer) is to offer evidence in support of an argument (for example, as used in U.S. law [1]), or elements of an affirmative defense or offense. A party with the burden of proof must proffer sufficient evidence to carry that burden.

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  9. Over-the-top media service - Wikipedia

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    In 2011, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), Canada's telecommunications regulator, stated that it "considers that Internet access to programming independent of a facility or network dedicated to its delivery (via, for example, cable or satellite) is the defining feature of what has been termed 'over-the-top' services".