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Double Occupancy Rate: Refers to a charge by a hotel for a room shared by two people.

Occupancy Rate: The normal amount of rooms that are expected to be occupied at specific times of the year.

Occupancy Permit: A permit issued by the appropriate local governing body to establish that the property is suitable for habitation by meeting certain safety and health standards.

ntegrated Receiver Decoder (IRD): Satellite TV system receiver with a built-in decoder for unscrambling subscription channels. It is usually called a satellite receiver.

Nonrated: A bond that has not been rated by a large rating agency, usually because the issue is too small.

Not Rated: A rating service indicator, neither positive nor negative, showing that a security or company has not been rated.

Occupancy Tax: The tax levied by many cities on a hotel stay. In addition to local taxes, there may be a set tax per room or per person added to the hotel bill.

Open Rate: The number of HTML message recipients who opened your email, usually as a percentage of the total number of emails sent. The open rate is considered a key metric for judging an email campaig . . . View Full Definition

Pac-Man Strategy: Takeover defense strategy in which the prospective acquiree retaliates against the acquirer's tender offer by launching its own tender offer for the other firm.

Paratext: In Gérard Genette's work, Paratext: Thresholds of Interpretation, Genette introduces the idea of 'paratext,' i.e., anything external to the text itself that influences the way we read a tex . . . View Full Definition