| Accredited Representative |
A person who is approved by the Board of Immigration Appeals (the Board) to represent aliens before the Immigration Courts, the BIA and USCIS. He or she must work for a specific nonprofit, religious, charitable, social service, or similar organization. The organization must be authorized by the Board to represent aliens. |
| Acculturation |
Process through which immigrants are expected to learn the cultural patterns of the country of immigration, e.g., its language, cultural values, and practices. Some observers criticize the concept for assuming that the receiving society is culturally homogenous and that immigrants must relinquish their own ethnic group culture to integrate successfully. |
| Acquired Citizenship |
Citizenship at birth for children born in foreign countries whose parent(s) are U.S. citizen(s). |
| Bobbies |
The popular British name given to members of Sir Robert (Bob) Peel's Metropolitan Police Force. |
| Booking |
What the police do when they arrest someone. Includes taking fingerprints, photographs, and writing down personal information about the person. |
| Booking |
A law enforcement or correctional administrative process officially recording an entry into detention after arrest and identifying the person, the place, the time, the reason for the arrest, and the arresting authority. |
| Chlorofluorocarbons (cfcs) |
A family of chemicals commonly used in air conditioners and refrigerators as coolants and also as solvents and aerosol propellants. CFCs drift into the upper atmosphere where their chlorine components destroy ozone. CFCs are thought to be a major cause of the ozone hole over Antarctica. |
| Chlorophenoxy |
A class of herbicides that may be found in domestic water supplies and cause adverse health effects. Two widely used chlorophenoxy herbicides are 2,4-D (2,4-Dichlorophenoxy acetic acid) and 2,4,5-TP (2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxy propionic acid (silvex)). |
| Chlorosis |
Discoloration of normally green plant parts caused by disease, lack of nutrients, or various air pollutants. |
| Deed-in-lieu |
Short for "deed in lieu of foreclosure," this conveys title to the lender when the borrower is in default and wants to avoid foreclosure. The lender may or may not cease foreclosure activities if a borrower asks to provide a deed-in-lieu. Regardless of whether the lender accepts the deed-in-lieu, the avoidance and non-repayment of debt will most likely show on a credit history. What a deed-in-lieu may prevent is having the documents preparatory to a foreclosure being recorded and become a matter of public record. |
| Defeasible Fee Estate |
An estate in which the holder has a fee simple title that may be divested upon the occurrence or nonoccurrence of a specified event. There are two categories of defeasible fee estates: fee simple on condition precedent (fee simple determinable) and fee simple on condition subsequent. |
| Delinquency |
Failure to make mortgage payments when mortgage payments are due. For most mortgages, payments are due on the first day of the month. Even though they may not charge a "late fee" for a number of days, the payment is still considered to be late and the loan delinquent. When a loan payment is more than 30 days late, most lenders report the late payment to one or more credit bureaus. |
| Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission |
An organization that tests transactions for consistency with the HIPAA requirements, and that accredits health care clearinghouses. |
| Electronic Media Claims |
A flat file format used to transmit or transport claims, such as the 192-byte UB-92 Institutional EMC format and the 320-byte Professional EMC NSF. |
| Electronic Media Questionnaire |
A process that large employers can use to complete their requirements for supplying IRS/SSA/HCFA Data Match information electronically. |
| Fine |
A sum of money imposed upon a convicted person as punishment for a criminal offense. |
| File |
"To file" a paper is to give it to the court clerk for inclusion in the case record. |
| Fraud |
A deceitful perversion of truth or device to intentionally deprive another party of property and/or rights while possible infliction of harm. |
| Gain Time |
The amount of time deducted from time to be served in prison on a given sentence as a consequence of participation in special projects or programs. |
| Gambling |
To unlawfully bet or wager money or something else of value; assist, promote, or operate a game of chance for money or some other stake; possess or transmit wagering information; manufacture, sell, purchase, possess, or transport gambling equipment, devices or goods; or tamper with the outcome of a sporting event or contest to gain a gambling advantage. |
| General Deterrence |
A goal of criminal sentencing that seeks to prevent others from committing crimes similar to the one for which a particular offender is being sentenced by making an example of the person sentenced. |
| Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act Of 1996 (hipaa) |
The Standard for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information ("Privacy Rule") of HIPPA assures your health information is properly protected while allowing the flow of health information needed to provide and promote high quality health care and to protect the public's health and well being. |
| High-deductible Medigap Policy |
A type of Medigap policy that has a high deductible but a lower premium. You must pay the deductible before the Medigap policy pays anything. The deductible amount can change each year. |
| Hill-burton Program/facilities |
Hospitals and clinics that offer free or reduced-cost care to patients who meet qualifying income limits. These vary in what types of services they offer and do not provide services that are covered by a patient's insurance. |
| Incidental Property |
means, with respect to a debtor's principal residence: (A) property commonly conveyed with a principal residence in the area where the real property is located; (B) all easements, rights, appurtenances, fixtures, rents, royalties, mineral rights, oil or gas rights or profits, water rights, escrow funds, or insurance proceeds; and (C) all replacements or additions. |
| Indemnity |
to guarantee against any loss which another might suffer. In bankruptcy, it is used to describe the undertaking of one spouse in a divorce to assume certain debts of the marriage and to see that the other spouse is not forced to pay. Also called a "hold hamrless" clause. |
| Indenture |
means mortgage, deed of trust, or indenture, under which there is outstanding a security, other than a voting-trust certificate, constituting a claim against the debtor, a claim secured by a lien on any of the debtor's property, or an equity security of the debtor. |
| Job Bank |
Refers to pools of retired employees who are used by employers to fill part-time or temporary position needs. |
| Job Ckassification |
A method of evaluation used for job comparisons,which groups jobs into a prearranged number of grades,each having a class description and a specified pay range. |
| Job Coach |
A person hired by the placement agency or provided through the employer to furnish specialized on-site training to assist an employee with a disability in learning and performing a job and adjusting to the work environment. |
| Kiosk |
A kiosk is a freestanding structure (open sides, usually multi sided) located in a shopping center or mall from which merchandise is sold. A multi-sided structure found in a shopping mall or center. |
| Kit Home |
A structure that contains prefabricated components and is put together by a contractor. |
| Knee Wall |
A wall-like structure that supports roof rafters. |
| Larceny |
Obtaining property by fraud or deceit |
| Latent Evidence |
Evidence of relevance to a criminal investigation that is not readily seen by the unaided eye. |
| Law |
A rule of conduct, generally found enacted in the form of a statute, that proscribes or mandates certain forms of behavior. Statutory law is often the result of moral enterprise by interest groups that, through the exercise of political power, are successful in seeing their valued perspectives enacted into law. |
| Maturity |
The date on which the principal balance of a loan, bond, or other financial instrument becomes due and payable.[Top] |
| Maximum Financing |
A loan amount within 5 percent of the highest loan-to-value ratio allowed for a property. |
| Mean |
A measure of central tendency (for a distribution of values) defined as the average value of a variable in a sample and calculated by adding together all the values observed in a data set and dividing by the number of values observed. |
| National Healthcare Safety Network (nhsn) |
A secure computer system run by CDC for hospitals throughout America to share information about their healthcare associated infection rates. |
| National Health Expenditures |
All spending in the U.S. for health services, including individual expenditures not reimbursed, the administrative costs of non-profit and government health programs, the net cost to enrollees of private health insurance, government expenditures designed to promote health in general, non-commercial health research, and construction of medical facilities. |
| National Health Information Infrastructure |
This is a healthcare-specific lane on the Information Superhighway, as described in the National Information Infrastructure (NII) initiative. Conceptually, this includes the HIPAA A/S initiatives. |
| Opinion |
An explanation written by the judge explaining his decision. |
| Ordinance |
A law passed by a local or municipal government. |
| Ordinary Course Of Business |
Conduct of business within normal commercial customs and usages. |
| Primary Source Data |
Information obtained directly from field observations and survey instruments (by observing or monitoring a phenomenon or site firsthand), typically involving quantitative measurement and/or qualitative assessment of that which is observed or monitored. |
| Prime Rate |
The interest rate that banks charge to their preferred customers. Changes in the prime rate are widely publicized in the news media and are used as the indexes in some adjustable rate mortgages, especially home equity lines of credit. Changes in the prime rate do not directly affect other types of mortgages, but the same factors that influence the prime rate also affect the interest rates of mortgage loans. |
| Primer |
The initial coat of paint that is applied before the final topcoat. |
| Quid Pro Quo |
A Latin phrase meaning "something for something." Quid pro quo is a type of sexual harassment in which the harasser asks for a sexual favor in return for providing an employment benefit, such as a raise, continued employment, or other favorable treatment. |
| Quota |
Fixed hiring and promotion rates based on race, sex, or other protected class standards, which must be met at all costs. In extreme cases, the courts have assigned quotas to some employers who have continued to practice illegal discrimination. An agency or any other employer cannot use quotas to meet their affirmative employment goals unless a court orders it |
| Qualifying Individuals (1) (qi-1s) |
This is a Medicaid program for beneficiaries who need help in paying for Medicare Part B premiums. The beneficiary must have Medicare Part A and limited income and resources and not be otherwise eligible for Medicaid. For those who qualify, the Medicaid program pays full Medicare Part B premiums only. |
| Racial Profiling |
Refers to law enforcement strategies and practices that single out minorities as objects of suspicion solely on the basis of the color of their skin or accent. |
| Racism |
This is a belief in the moral or biological superiority of one race or ethnic group over another or others. |
| Ratification |
process by which the legislative body of a state confirms a government’s action in signing a treaty; formal procedure by which a state becomes bound to a treaty after acceptance. |
| Sexism |
Attitudes, conditions, or behaviors that promote stereotyping and oppression based on sex and gender; discrimination based on sex or gender. |
| Sexual Orientation |
Generally defined to mean heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality. |
| Sharing Learning |
Communicating with other members of one’s family, class, school, or larger community through multi-media or diverse methods of expression what one has learned. |
| Trade |
A credit agreement between a consumer and a lending organization. An account may have a closed-ended agreement (such as an installment loan) or an open-ended agreement (such as a revolving loan). Also known as trade. See tradeline. |
| Trade Line |
A credit industry term for an account listed on a credit file. |
| Transact |
To pay off the balance in full each month. People who transact only generate interchange income for the lender. |
| Uniform Claim Task Force |
An organization that developed the initial HCFA-1500 Professional Claim Form. The maintenance responsibilities were later assumed by the NUCC. |
| Ub-82 |
A uniform institutional claim form developed by the NUBC that was in general use from 1983 - 1993. |
| Ub-92 |
An electronic format of the CMS-1450 paper claim form that has been in general use since 1993. |
| Va Benefits: |
Eligible services and programs offered by VA such as pensions, education assistance, housing, burial aid, life insurance, employment preferences and other services. VA benefits vary depending on the Veteran's service record. A Veteran and their dependents may be eligible for different types of benefits provided by VA. |
| Veap: |
The Post-Vietnam Era Veterans Educational Assistance Program (Title 38 U.S. Code, Chapter 32) is available for eligible Veterans who entered active duty between January 1, 1977, and June 30, 1985. Benefits and entitlement are determined by the contributions paid while on active duty. Veterans have 10 years after separation in which to use the benefit. |
| Veteran |
This term means a person who served in the active military, naval, or air service, and who was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable. |
| Writ |
An order issued from a court in the name of the sovereign or state directing the person named to comply with the directions contained therein. |
| Written Consent |
A document executed by either the shareholders or directors of a corporation in lieu of a formal meeting. |
| Wrongful Death Statues |
Laws giving the family members of a deceased a cause of action if the death of their loved one resulted because of another's negligence. |
| X12n/tg2/wg10 |
The Health Care Services Review Work Group (WG10) of the Health Care Task Group (TG2) of the Insurance Subcommittee (N) of X12. This group maintains the X12 278 Referral Certification and Authorization transaction. |
| X12n/tg2/wg12 |
The Interactive Health Care Claims Work Group (WG12) of the Health Care Task Group (TG2) of the Insurance Subcommittee (N) of X12. This group maintains the IHCLME Interactive Claims transaction. |
| X12n/tg2/wg15 |
The Health Care Provider Information Work Group (WG15) of the Health Care Task Group (TG2) of the Insurance Subcommittee (N) of X12. This group maintains the X12 274 Provider Information transaction. |
| Yield |
Ratio of profit to overall gross income for a given service, insurance product or other business venture. |
| Year-round Education |
A modified school calendar that gives students short breaks throughout the year, instead of a traditional three-month summer break. Year-round calendars vary, sometimes within the same school district. Some schools use the staggered schedule to relieve overcrowding, while others believe the three-month break allows students to forget much of the material covered in the previous year. |
| Year Of Exhaustion |
The first year in which a trust fund is unable to pay benefits when due because the assets of the fund are exhausted. |
| Z-list |
OSHA's Toxic and Hazardous Substances Tables (Z-1, Z-2, and Z-3) of air contaminants; any material found on these tables is considered hazardous. |
| Zone Of Saturation |
The soil or rock located below the top of the groundwater table. By definition, the zone of saturation is saturated with water. Also see water table. |
| Zooplankton |
Small, usually microscopic animals(such as protozoans), found in lakes and reservoirs. |
