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Business Definition for: Limit

  • an amount above or below which a broker is not to conclude the purchase or sale of a security for the client who specifies it

Wiktionary Definition for: Limit

  • To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
  • Ex: ''We need to limit the power of the executive.''
  • Ex: ''I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.''
  • A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
  • Ex: ''There are several existing limits to executive power.''
  • Ex: ''Two drinks is my limit tonight.''
  • math A value to which a sequence converges.
  • Ex: ''The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.''
  • math Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
  • Ex: ''Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.''

Additional Resources

Notice Of Credit Limit
This template can be used to inform the customer about the credit limit. It mentions the existing credit limit and the credit limit of further order if credit limit exceeds.
Tags: FreeBusinessForms.com, Limit
Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Notes for a Contingent Claims Theory of Limit Order Markets
This paper provides a road map for building a contingent claims theory of limit order markets grounded in a simple observation: limit orders are equivalent to a portfolio of cash-or-nothing and asset-or-nothing digital options on market order flow. However, limit orders are not conventional derivative securities: order flow is an...
Tags: IBM Lotus Notes, National Bureau Of Economic Research, Theory, Order
White papers 2005-07-01
Limit Management With SAP for Banking
In today's competitive global economy, banks must closely tie risk management to profitability. The SAP for banking set of solutions delivers enhanced limit management features that helps to measure, analyze, and control risk throughout an enterprise. This global limit solution is available practically around the clock and can handle calculations...
Tags: Financial Services, Banking, SAP AG
White papers 2004-12-03
Advising Customers of Their Credit Limit
In some companies, a credit limit can be defined this way: The credit limit is the maximum amount that we will ship to a customer without updating the credit file and making a decision about whether an increase is warranted. In other companies, a credit limit is something quite different....
Tags: Computer Sciences Corp., Customer
White papers 1995-01-01
Senate Votes to End 55 mph Federal Limit
WASHINGTON AP _ It's time to get rid of the 55 mph federal speed limit for cars, the Senate decided Tuesday, moving to cancel a rule praised by safety groups but opposed and flouted by many motorists. The limit would remain for big trucks and buses.
Tags: U.S. Senate
Research articles 1995-06-21
Charge Account Credit Limit Raise Notification
After reviewing your customers account you have decided to raise his/her credit limit, and you want notify this thing to the customer. Here is a template which confers customer the new credit limit.
Tags: Customer, Limit
Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Danaher Industrial Controls Extends its '+' Series Platform Technology to Include Limit Controllers
CHICAGO -- The '+' family of controllers is expanding again, this time to include limit control. Danaher Industrial Controls Group DICG announces the '+' Plus Series limit controllers for its well-known Partlow and West brand controller product lines. Built on the company's next-generation platform, the new 1/16, 1/8 and 1/4...
Tags: Danaher Corp.
Research articles 2005-01-24
Limit Feeding Concentrate Diets to Beef Cows as an Alternative to Feeding Hay
Limit feeding may be limited to a small percentage of cattle producers in Oklahoma. Adoption is limited by the additional labor requirement, management skills, feed storage capacity, and the availability of feed bunks, feed delivery equipment, and a well-drained dry lot or sacrifice pasture. The cost effectiveness of limit feeding...
Tags: Adoption, Price, Storage, Productivity, Hardware
White papers 2002-07-01
Refusal Of Request To Increase Credit Limit
Use this template to inform the customer about his/her application to extend the credit limit has been refused.
Tags: Template, LetterPremier.com
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Notice Of Credit Limit, Conversion To C.O.D.
Use this template to make aware your consumer that he/she is near the credit limit and now onwards you are going to ship the future orders on a C.O.D. basis, until the balance is reduced.
Tags: Limit, Information Net Source
Tools & templates 2007-01-01
NEWS BRIEFS: QUOTA-LIMIT REQUEST HITS ROADBLOCK...WAL-MART FIGHTS SUPERCENTER BAN...HSN APPOINTS NEALON PRESIDENT.
QUOTA-LIMIT REQUEST HITS ROADBLOCK QUOTA-LIMIT REQUEST HITS ROADBLOCK
Tags: Home Shopping Network, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Research articles 2004-02-02
NBA to limit beer sales
AP--The NBA is issuing guidelines to limit the size and number of beers sold at games and have teams announce what kind of fan behavior is considered unacceptable, commissioner David Stern said.
Tags: NBA
Research articles 2005-02-21
Ruling could limit MCI's - major capital improvement increases may not be compounded into base rent or exceed 6% per year
Ruling could limit MCI's
Tags: MCI Inc.
Research articles 1991-08-14
1st Interstate Mortgage, LLC Implements Fannie Mae's New Conforming Loan Limit; Increased Loan Limit to Help More Home Buyers
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- 1st Interstate Mortgage, LLC will implement Fannie Mae's new conforming loan limit of $417,000 effective immediately.
Tags: Fannie Mae, LLC
Research articles 2005-11-30
UAL Violated Outsourcing Limit by Nearly $500 million, Independent Audit Concludes
SAN FRANCISCO -- United Airlines (NASDAQ:UAUA) exceeded its contractual limit for aircraft maintenance outsourcing limit by almost $500 million combined total for 2005 and 2006, according to a recently completed independent audit conducted for the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association AMFA. The excessive amounts violate a key clause of UAL's labor...
Tags: audit, outsourcing, UAL Corp.
Research articles 2008-03-25
Quicken Loans Raises New Conforming Loan Limit to $300,700 Breaking the Old `Jumbo' Barrier; New Loan Limit Gives `Jumbo' Homebuyers a Break
Business Editors/Banking & Real Estate Writers
Tags: barrier, Quicken
Research articles 2001-11-28
Achieving the Technical Limit: An Engineering Targeted Approach
This paper describes an iterative approach to achieve the drilling technical limit, or optimum performance by reviewing and applying sound engineering practices to operations. The goal of the technical limit is to eliminate removable lost time by employing engineering principles and optimum horsepower in all events to determine what is...
Tags: Limit, Engineering, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2003-02-06
Requesting Credit Limit Increase
Use this template to inform the firm for increase the credit limit for healthy business.
Tags: Limit, Template, LetterPremier.com
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Allowable Depth-to-Width Ratios for Glulam Beams
If a glulam beam has the compression edge fully braced as would occur by the normal attachment of sheathing or decking with mechanical fasteners, there is no need to limit the d/b ratio to 7. If the compression edge is not braced, the member shall be checked in accordance with...
Tags: Ratio, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2004-08-01
Wine lead limit set - US Food and Drug Administration announces interim lead limit for table wines - Brief Article
The Food and Drug Administration has announced an interim lead limit for all table wines, and has disclosed plans to ban lead-foil wrapping on wine bottles.
Tags: FDA, wine
Research articles 1991-09-16
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