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An anniversary is the date on which an event took place or an institution was founded in a previous year, and may also refer to the commemoration or celebration...

Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list...

Homelessness or houselessness – also known as a state of being unhoused or unsheltered – is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing...

Look up shill or Shill in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility...

An error account is a type of account used for storing compensation for errors in trading, a transaction that is not posted in a timely manner because...

Narcotics Anonymous (NA), founded in 1953, describes itself as a "nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem...

China Oilfield Services (COSL) is an oilfield services company. It is a majority owned subsidiary of Chinese state owned company CNOOC Group. It also has...

Pebbles is a brand of breakfast cereal introduced in the United States by Post Consumer Brands on October 20, 1971 featuring characters from the animated...

Changhe, officially Jiangxi Changhe Automobile Co Ltd, is a Chinese automobile manufacturer based in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China. Currently a majority-owned...

This is a list of British words not widely used in the United States. In Commonwealth of Nations, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Canada, New...

Free newspapers are distributed free of charge, often in central places in cities and towns, on public transport, with other newspapers, or separately...

The face value, sometimes called nominal value, is the value of a coin, bond, stamp or paper money as printed on the coin, stamp or bill itself by the...

The 13th Regional Corporation is one of thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA)...

Waxed cotton is cotton impregnated with a paraffin or natural beeswax based wax, woven into or applied to the cloth. Popular from the 1920s to the mid-1950s...

Shared earning/shared parenting marriage, also known as peer marriage, is a type of marriage where partners at the outset agree to adhere to a model of...

Omni Superstore was a chain of supermarkets in the Chicago area and was owned by Dominick's. In 1997, Dominick's phased out Omni and converted the stores...

Elite capture is a form of corruption whereby public resources are biased for the benefit of a few individuals of superior social status in detriment to...

In business, a trojan horse is an advertising offer made by a company that is designed to draw potential customers by offering them cash or something of...

Critical management studies (CMS) is a loose but extensive grouping of theoretically informed critiques of management, business and organisation, grounded...

In North America, an out-of-market sports package is a form of subscription television that broadcasts sporting events to areas where the events were unable...