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  2. Regret (decision theory) - Wikipedia

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    Regret theory models choice under uncertainty taking into account the effect of anticipated regret. Subsequently, several other authors improved upon it. [4] It incorporates a regret term in the utility function which depends negatively on the realized outcome and positively on the best alternative outcome given the uncertainty resolution. This ...

  3. Disappointment - Wikipedia

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    Or Disappointment is the feeling of dissatisfaction that follows the failure of expectations or hopes [1] to manifest. Similar to regret, it differs in that a person who feels regret focuses primarily on the personal choices that contributed to a poor outcome, while a person feeling disappointment focuses on the outcome itself. [2]

  4. Wilmot Proviso - Wikipedia

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    The Wilmot Proviso was an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War. [1] The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War.

  5. Proposal (business) - Wikipedia

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    A business proposal is a written offer from a seller to a prospective sponsor. Business proposals are often a key step in a complex sales process, where a buyer considers more than price in a purchase.

  6. Regret - Wikipedia

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    Agent regret is the idea that a person could be involved in a situation, and regret their involvement even if those actions were innocent, unintentional, or involuntary. [3] For example, if someone decides to die by stepping in front of a moving vehicle , the death is not the fault of the driver, but the driver may still regret that the person ...

  7. Wiktionary - Wikipedia

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    Wiktionary (UK: / ˈ w ɪ k ʃ ən ər i / ⓘ, WIK-shə-nər-ee; US: / ˈ w ɪ k ʃ ə n ɛr i / ⓘ, WIK-shə-nerr-ee; rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.

  8. Glossary of Brexit terms - Wikipedia

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    The first attestation in the Oxford English Dictionary is a Euractiv blog post by Peter Wilding on 15 May 2012. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] It was coined by analogy with " Grexit ", attested on 6 February 2012 to refer to a hypothetical withdrawal of Greece from the eurozone (and possibly the EU altogether, although there was never a clear popular ...

  9. Letter of comfort (contract law) - Wikipedia

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    A letter of comfort, sometimes called a "letter of intent", is a communication from a party to a contract to the other party that indicates an initial willingness to enter into a contractual obligation absent the elements of a legally enforceable contract. The objective is to create a morally binding but not legally binding assurance.