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Cash Rent: In an agricultural lease, the amount of money given as rent to the landowner at the outset of the lease, as opposed to share cropping.

Crop Share Rent: In contrast to cash rent, the tenant farmer pays the landlord a share of the crop. This arrangement puts the landlord, like the tenant operator, at risk from variation in yields and prices. . . . View Full Definition

Monsoon Current (Southwest Monsoon Current): An Indian Ocean current setting in a generally eastward to southeastward direction off India and Ceylon. It replaces the North Equatorial Current, reversed by wind stress of the south-west m . . . View Full Definition

Mixed (Current): Type of tidal current characterized by a conspicuous diurnal inequality in the greater and lesser flood strengths and/or greater and lesser ebb strengths. See flood current and ebb current.

Miscellaneous Non-Current Liabilities: An account for non-current liabilities not including long-term debt (mortgage debt, lease debt, long-term borrowing, and shareholder loans) and deferred taxes.

Motor (Efferent) Pathways: The portion of the peripheral nervous system that carries signals from the central nervous system to the muscles and glands.

Mutual Fund Cash-To-Assets Ratio: The cash instruments portion of a mutual fund as a proportion of its total assets.

Net Cash Balance: Beginning cash balance plus cash receipts minus cash disbursements.

Negative Cash Flow: Occurs when spending in a business is greater than earnings.

Neap Tides Or Tidal Currents: Tides of decreased range or tidal currents of decreased speed occurring semimonthly as the result of the Moon being in quadrature. The neap range (Np) of the tide is the average range occurr . . . View Full Definition