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  2. Dispersant - Wikipedia

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    A dispersant or a dispersing agent is a substance, typically a surfactant, that is added to a suspension of solid or liquid particles in a liquid (such as a colloid or emulsion) to improve the separation of the particles and to prevent their settling or clumping.

  3. Suspension (punishment) - Wikipedia

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    Suspension is a common practice in the workplace for being in violation of an organization's policy, or major breaches of policy.Work suspensions occur when a business manager or supervisor deems an action of an employee, whether intentional or unintentional, to be a violation of policy that should result in a course of punishment, and when the employee's absence during the suspension period ...

  4. Law of agency - Wikipedia

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    The law of agency is an area of commercial law dealing with a set of contractual, quasi-contractual and non-contractual fiduciary relationships that involve a person, called the agent, who is authorized to act on behalf of another (called the principal) to create legal relations with a third party. [1]

  5. Principal (commercial law) - Wikipedia

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    In commercial law, a principal is a person, legal or natural, who authorizes an agent to act to create one or more legal relationships with a third party.This branch of law is called agency and relies on the common law proposition qui facit per alium, facit per se (from Latin: "he who acts through another, acts personally").

  6. Registered agent - Wikipedia

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    In United States business law, a registered agent (also known as a resident agent, [1] statutory agent, [2] or agent for service of process [3]) is a business or individual designated to receive service of process (SOP) when a business entity is a party in a legal action such as a lawsuit or summons. [4]

  7. Suspense account - Wikipedia

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    For example, sender sends payment from US ACH account to a BB mobile number in Japan. The customer receives an alert on their mobile to withdraw this money from a BB agent. Until they withdraw, the remittance stays in a suspense account, earning the financial institute or the BB enabler float/interest on that money.

  8. Clarifying agent - Wikipedia

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    Particles finer than 0.1 μm (10 −7 m) in water remain continuously in motion due to electrostatic charge (often negative) which causes them to repel each other. [citation needed] Once their electrostatic charge is neutralized by the use of a coagulant chemical, the finer particles start to collide and agglomerate (collect together) under the influence of Van der Waals forces.

  9. Shutdown (economics) - Wikipedia

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    A decision to shut down means that the firm is temporarily suspending production. [23] It does not mean that the firm is going out of business (exiting the industry). [24] If market conditions improve, due to prices increasing or production costs falling, the firm can resume production. Shutting down is a short-run decision. [25]