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Land Line: Traditional wired phone service. Voice, video and data transmission technology that relies on wires. Also called wireline.

Wireline: Traditional telephone technology that relies upon wires. Also called land line.

No Net Loss Wetlands Policy: An overall policy goal for wetland protection first adopted by the Bush Administration, and more recently by the Clinton Administration. The goal is to halt the decline in the overall number . . . View Full Definition

New Zealand Stock Exchange: Automated, screen-based national trading system based in Wellington.

New Zealand Dairy Board (NZDB): The New Zealand Dairy Board is a quasi- government corporation that was explicitly created by New Zealand statute to purchase all New Zealand dairy products that are manufactured for export. . . . View Full Definition

No-Mans Land: The area between the service line and the baseline, where a player is most vulnerable

New England Short O: In linguistics, this term refers to 'the lax vowel used by some New Englanders in road and home corresponding to tense [o] in standard English' (Algeo 324).

Nonlinear Editing (NLE): Editing performed on a computer, in which shots do not have to be placed one after the other (i.e., in a linear fashion).

North Midland Dialect: A dialect of American English spoke in a strip of land just south of the Northern Dialect. This should not be confused with the Midlands dialect of English spoken in Britain.

North American Wetlands Conservation Act: P.L. 101-233 (December 13, 1989), and amended in 1990 and 1994, authorizes a wetlands habitat program: administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service. The law authorized annual appropriations . . . View Full Definition