Advance Commitment: A promise to sell an asset before the seller has lined up purchase of the asset. This seller can offset risk by purchasing a futures contract to fix the sales price approximately.

 

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Advance Commitment: A promise to sell an asset before the seller has lined up purchase of the asset. This seller can offset risk by purchasing a futures contract to fix the sales price approximately.

Commitment: 1. A pledge to do a certain act, such as a promise by a lender to loan a certain amount of money at a specific rate of interest to a qualified borrower, provided the loan is made by a certai . . . View Full Definition

Commitment Fee: Describes a trader's obligation to accept or make delivery on a futures contract. Related: Open interest.

Firm Commitment Underwriting: Refers to an order to buy or sell that can be executed without confirmation for some fixed period. Also, a synonym for company.

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Advanced Television (ATV): Advanced Television is an earlier term used to describe the development and advance applications of digital television, now simply referred to as DTV.

Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA): The U.S. Department of Defense agency that, in conjunction with leading universities, created arpanet, the precursor of the Internet.

Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA): This is a disk drive implementation developed by the Small Form Factor (SFF) Committee that integrates the controller on the disk drive itself. There are many versions of ATA, which include . . . View Full Definition

Loan Approval-Commitment: A lender's agreement to make a loan on particular terms, including interest rate, fees and charges.

Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC): An acronym for Advanced Television Systems Committee, and the name of the DTV system used by broadcasters in the U.S. In European they use the COFDM standard. A digital tuner made for use in . . . View Full Definition