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91Excess Employer Withholding — When one or more employers withhold more than the aggregate maximum amount of Social Security and/or railroad retirement contributions that should have been withheld from a single taxpayer during a taxation year. Excess employer withholdings are… …
92Excess baggage — 1) Fans of a certain combination or a particular star performer sometimes followed a show from town to town, traveling on the same trains and yet having no connection to the company, who referred to such people as excess baggage. 2) Excess… …
93excess policy — An insurance policy in which the insured is responsible for paying a specified sum (the excess) of each claim and cannot make claims of a lower value than this excess. For example, a £100 excess on a motor insurance policy means that the insured… …
94excess fare — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms excess fare : singular excess fare plural excess fares tourism an extra amount of money to pay, such as for travelling first class with a second class ticket or for travelling further than you originally… …
95excess insurance — Insurance which, by a provision in the policy, is relieved from contributing to other insurers of the same risk; such a policy renders the insurer liable only for the amount of loss or damage in excess of the coverage provided by another policy… …
96excess-loss reinsurance — noun : reinsurance by a company agreeing to bear any loss in excess of a stipulated amount often with some maximum limitation compare excess insurance, excess reinsurance …
97Excess risk — In statistics, excess risk is a measure of the association between a specified risk factor and a specified outcome (such as contracting a disease). It is the difference between two proportions in epidemiology it s typically defined to be the… …
98excess capacity — in the short term, fishing capacity or number of boats that exceeds the capacity required to capture and handle the allowable catch. In the long term, fishing capacity that exceeds the level required to ensuring the sustainability of the stock… …
99Excess Returns — Investment returns from a security or portfolio that exceed a benchmark or index with a similar level of risk. It is widely used as a measure of the value added by the portfolio or investment manager, or the manager s ability to beat the market.… …
100excess kurtosis — Kurtosis measures the fatness of the tails of a distribution. Positive excess kurtosis means that distribution has fatter tails than a normal distribution. Fat tails means there is a higher than normal probability of big positive and negative… …
