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Email Change of Address (ECOA): A process that provides updated email addresses for data files based on consumer-provided, permission-based data.

Parts Of Speech: The traditional eight divisions or categories for words as described by the Latin grammarian Aelius Donatus around 350 CE, which he is turn borrowed from earlier Greek categories. In English . . . View Full Definition

Part Of The Building or House: Said of the 7 or 10 pin when it remains solidly standing after an apparently perfect hit. Used in a phrase such as, That pin must be part of the building.

Patient Bill Of Rights: Refers to the Consumer Bill of Rights and Responsibilities, a report prepared by the President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry in an effo . . . View Full Definition

Part Of The Building: An expression used to describe a standing single pin after an apparent perfect hit.

Payments In Lieu Of Taxes (PILT): A program administered by the Bureau of Land Management of the Department of the Interior to compensate counties for the tax-exempt status of federal lands: the fixed payments per entitlemen . . . View Full Definition

Penultimate Profit Prospect (PPP): The second-lowest-priced of the ten highest-yielding stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average that is said (by authors O'Higgins and Downes) to be the Dow stock with the best possibility o . . . View Full Definition

Pecking-Order View (Of Capital Structure): The argument that external financing transactions costs, especially those associated with the problem of adverse selection, create a dynamic environment in which firms have a preference, or . . . View Full Definition

Payoff Pitch: A pitch thrown with a full count.

Payoff Diagram: In option pricing, a graph of the value of the option position at expiration as a function of the underlying asset price.