a department, area, or function to which costs and/or revenues are charged
Wiktionary Definition for: Center
geometry The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
geometry The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference of the circle.
geometry The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the surface of the sphere.
geometry The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure.
A place where some function or activity occurs.
Ex:''shopping center''
Ex:''convention center''
A topic that is particularly important in a given context.
Ex:''the center of the controversy''
Ex:''the center of attention''
basketball The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.
Icehockey The forward that generally plays between the left wing and right wing and usually takes the faceoffs.
fb The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play.
Of, at, or related to a center.
To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway between the extremes.
To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).
Let's say you're an established company, and you've just decided to move your existing call center and therefore must do a lot of rehiring, or you've decided to start a call center for the first time. Perhaps you've even decided to outsource your call center services to an outside provider....
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BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Lightbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: LTBG), a leading analytics, decisioning and e-commerce company, today announced that it will close its Broomfield, Colorado Call Center January 28, 2005. Affected in the decision to distribute the Broomfield call center business to the other Lightbridge facilities are about 40 call center personnel,...
PC giant Dell's first research and development center outside the Untied States has been established in Shanghai, the major industrial and business center in China.
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The once-ailing Parkway Crossing Shopping Center in Baltimore County, which received a second wind in February when Home Depot moved in, has been sold for $16 million. Wharton Realty Group Inc., a Sea Girt, N.J.-based real estate company, purchased the 37- year-old Parkville strip shopping center on May...
Cox Communications will close its customer service center at 2326 Williams Blvd. today and relocate the center to Elmwood Monday at 338 Edwards Ave. Store hours will be 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays. Customers will be able to pay bills, subscribe to new services and pick up or...
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The National Space Science and Technology Center-a venture that will bring together scientists, engineers and educators-became reality recently in Montgomery, Alabama, as Alabama Governor Don Siegelman and Art Stephenson, the director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, formally endorsed a partnership agreement to operate the new center.
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Today's contact centers operate in a challenging economic reality that makes it imperative to do more--and better--with less. The contact center manager now deals with training, global outsourcing, and other critical issues, including the transformation of the call center from a cost center to a profit center. This paper explores...
ORANGE, Calif. -- For the data center industry, power consumption and availability are arguably two of its most pressing concerns. To assist journalists covering the topics, experts from AFCOM's Data Center Institute are available as sources to address the array of related perspectives: industry overview, end-user, and solution provider.
Ford Center and Cox Business Services Convention Center in Oklahoma City received Facilities Magazine's Prime Site Award. The award honors the top entertainment venues for 2006.
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