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  2. Owner-operator - Wikipedia

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    An owner-operator is a small business or microbusiness owner who also runs the day-to-day operations of the company. Owner-operators are found in many business models and franchising companies in many different industries like restaurant chains , health care , logistics , maintenance, repair, and operations .

  3. Bareboat charter - Wikipedia

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    In a bare-boat or demise charter, on the other hand, the owner gives possession of the ship to the charterer, and the charterer hires its own master and crew. The bare-boat charterer is sometimes called a "disponent owner". The giving up of possession of the ship by the owner is the defining characteristic of a bareboat or demise charter.

  4. Service (economics) - Wikipedia

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    A restaurant waiter is an example of a service-related occupation. A service is an act or use for which a consumer, company, or government is willing to pay. [1] Examples include work done by barbers, doctors, lawyers, mechanics, banks, insurance companies, and so on.

  5. Concession (contract) - Wikipedia

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    Other forms of contracts between public and private entities, namely lease contract and management contract (in the water sector often called by the French term affermage), are closely related but differ from a concession in the rights of the operator and its remuneration. A lease gives a company the right to operate and maintain a public ...

  6. Regional transmission organization (North America) - Wikipedia

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    The non-discriminatory services required by Order No. 888, known as open access services, are reflected in a pro forma open access tariff contained in the Rule. The Rule also requires functional separation of the utilities' transmission and power marketing functions (also referred to as functional unbundling) and the adoption of an electric ...

  7. Ship management - Wikipedia

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    Several management companies provide the owner with a crew on board. When the ship comes out of the shipyard (where the ship is built) the management company takes it over providing technical management to the owner. Most Management companies also offer other services like inspection prior to purchase, supervision during building, crew ...

  8. Producer (agriculture) - Wikipedia

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    Producer, in United States agricultural policy, is generally thought of as a farm operator.However, given the sometimes complex ownership and rental arrangements of today’s farms, the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 101–171, Sec. 1001) defines a producer for purposes of farm program benefits as an owner-operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper that shares in the risk of producing a crop and is ...

  9. Power system operations and control - Wikipedia

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    The decisions ("economic dispatch") are based on the dispatch curve, where the X-axis constitutes the system power, intervals for the generation units are placed on this axis in the merit order with the interval length corresponding to the maximum power of the unit, Y-axis values represent the marginal cost (per-MWh of electricity, ignoring the ...