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Automated Customer Account Transfer (ACAT): For transfers of securities from a non-equity trading account to your equity trading account with your broker.

Non-Transferable: A ticket that can only be used by the person who was originally scheduled to fly at the time of purchase.

Nuclear Transfer: A laboratory procedure in which a cell's nucleus is removed and placed into an oocyte with its own nucleus removed so the genetic information from the donor nucleus controls the resulting ce . . . View Full Definition

Official Unrequited Transfers: Include a variety of subsidies, military aid, voluntary cancellation of debt, contributions to international organizations, indemnities imposed under peace treaties, technical assistance, ta . . . View Full Definition

Open Account: Arrangement whereby sales are made with no formal debt contract. The buyer signs a receipt, and the seller records the sale in the sales ledger.

Omnibus Account: An account carried by one futures commission merchant with another futures commission merchant in which the transactions of two or more persons are combined and carried in the name of the or . . . View Full Definition

Nominal Accounts: Accounts that are closed to a zero balance at the end of each accounting period: temporary accounts generally appearing on the income statement.

New Account Report: A broker's document including information about a new client. See: Know your customer.

MTF (Modulation Transfer Function): A comparison of contrast between a test chart and the reproduced image. One of the measurements of lens performance used in the manufacturing process.

Money Wire (Transfer): The process of moving money from one bank to another, sometimes between countries.