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  2. Payment - Wikipedia

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    The party making the payment is commonly called the payer, while the payee is the party receiving the payment. Whilst payments are often made voluntarily, some payments are compulsory, such as payment of a fine. Payments can be effected in a number of ways, for example: the use of money, whether through cash, cheque, mobile payment or bank ...

  3. Money transfer - Wikipedia

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    Money transfer generally refers to one of the following cashless modes of payment or payment systems: Electronic funds transfer, an umbrella term mostly used for bank card-based payments; Giro (banking), also known as direct deposit; Money order, transfer by postal cheque, money gram or others

  4. Payment system - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] A payment system is an operational network which links bank accounts and provides for monetary exchange using bank deposits. [3] Some payment systems also include credit mechanisms, which are essentially a different aspect of payment. Payment systems are used in lieu of tendering cash in domestic and international transactions. This ...

  5. Payment card - Wikipedia

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    Payment cards are usually plastic cards, 85.60 mm × 53.98 mm (3.370 in × 2.125 in) and rounded corners with a radius of 2.88–3.48 mm, in accordance with ISO/IEC 7810#ID-1 standard. They usually also have a unique card number conforming with the ISO/IEC 7812 numbering standard, the cardholder’s name and the card expiry date, in addition to ...

  6. List of feeding behaviours - Wikipedia

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    There are many modes of feeding that animals exhibit, including: Filter feeding: A form of food procurement in which food particles or small organisms are randomly strained from water. Deposit feeding: obtaining nutrients from particles suspended in soil; Fluid feeding: obtaining nutrients by consuming other organisms' fluids

  7. Payment for ecosystem services - Wikipedia

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    The basic conceptualization of nature from the perspective of environmental economics is that manufactured capital can be used as a substitute for natural capital. [13] The definition of PES provided by environmental economics is the most popular: a voluntary transaction between a service buyer and service seller that takes place on the condition that either a specific ecosystem service is ...

  8. Taxis - Wikipedia

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    Chemotaxis is described in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, but signalling mechanisms (receptors, intracellular signaling) and effectors are significantly different. Durotaxis is the directional movement of a cell along a stiffness gradient. Electrotaxis (or galvanotaxis) is the directional movement of motile cells along the vector of an ...

  9. Wage payment systems - Wikipedia

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    Differential time rate : According to this method, different hourly rates are fixed for different levels of efficiency. Payment on Result. Piece Work Straight piecework system : The wages of the worker depend upon his output and rate of each unit of output; it is in fact independent of the time taken by him.