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- noun Plural form of
duration .
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Examples
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Carney highlighted the shift in global bond inflows toward shorter-term durations in recent months.
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"Globally, the message is that investors are not being adequately compensated for inflation risk in medium to longer-term durations."
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Leaving your Playstation 2 on for long durations is one that people do not think about.
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The ACD model of such price durations is really an alternative volatility model.
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It's playable in short durations, with dozens of brief levels.
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For shorter term durations, please call us to discuss rates.
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The precise maturity schedule for these loans is not definitive, however bank loans tend to have short-term durations, and the assumption is that all will mature by 2013, exhibiting moderate increases in maturities due to activity pick up over the last 2-3 years.
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We measure out our lives too many times in short durations.
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I have already explained how the concept of a moment conciliates the observed fact with this ideal; namely, there is a limiting simplicity in the quantitative expression of the properties of durations, which is arrived at by considering any one of the abstractive sets included in the moment.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
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Bharti Airtel reported reduced revenue and in the quarter ended Sept. 30, as call durations and average revenue per user dropped, even though the number of subscribers increased.
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