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1. The difference between the price one must pay to buy something, such as a currency, and the price one receives for selling it. 2. The difference between the interest rate on a bond and the risk fre [..]
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The difference between the winning and losing score of a game. Example: If the score of a game is 350-280, then the spread is +70pt for the winner and -70pt for the loser.
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The geometrical pattern of groups of geophones relative to the seismic source. The output from a single shot is recorded simultaneously by the spread during seismic acquisition. Common spread geometri [..]
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(1) The gap between bid and ask prices of a stock or other security. (2) The simultaneous purchase and sale of separate futures or options contracts for the same commodity for delivery in different mo [..]
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This is the gap between bid and ask prices of a stock or other security.
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Spread is the difference in yield between two financial instruments, e.g. in a swap of different securities. Swaps are agreements between at least two counter-parties to exchange cash flows in the fut [..]
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1 [singular] the growth or development of something, so that it affects a larger area or a larger number of peoplespread of: There were concerns about the spread of fighting to other regions.The aim o [..]
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In general, the difference in yield between different fixed-income securities. Often used to refer to the difference between the yield-to-maturity and the benchmark.Related Terms: Option Exercise price 
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(1) Two pages that face each other and are designed as one visual or production unit. (2) Technique of slightly enlarging the size of an image to accomplish a hairline trap with another image. Also ca [..]
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c. 1200, "to stretch out, to lay out; diffuse, disseminate" (transitive), also "to advance over a wide area" (intransitive); probably from Old English sprædan "to spread, stre [..]
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1620s, "act of spreading;" 1690s, "extent or expanse of something," from spread (v.). Meaning "copious meal" dates from 1822; sense of "food for spreading" (but [..]
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The difference between two prices, either across time or between commodities or instruments.
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An option trade in which two or more open positions are established in order to trade the differentials and offset risk. Option spreads may use different strike prices and/or expiry dates.
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The word spread has several different meanings: 1) The difference in a price quotation between the bid, the price at which a dealer is prepared to buy, and the ask, the price at which a dealer will sell. A large spread usually means the market lacks liquidity. When that happens, dealers often cannot buy and sell quickly and so they widen the spread [..]
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In the most general sense, a spread is the difference between two similar measures. In the stock market, for example, the spread is the difference between the highest price offered and the lowest price asked.With fixed-income securities, such as bonds, the spread is the difference between the yields on securities having the same investment grade bu [..]
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(1) Underwriter Spread – With respect to a new issue of municipal securities, the difference between the price paid by the underwriter to the issuer for the new issue and the prices at which the secur [..]
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process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space dispersed: distributed or spread over a considerable extent; "has ties with many widely dispersed friends&a [..]
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Short for point spread.
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See also inter-quartile range, range, and standard deviation.
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The spread is a form of betting that allows you to take the over or under line on a certain result. These types of bets can only be used in head to head matches for the most part, but will be weighted [..]
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A line set by Vegas that determines how many points a team is favored by.
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The difference between the bid and the ask. Generally speaking, more liquid (heavy volume) stocks usually have smaller bid/ask spreads. Less liquid stocks (light volume) usually have larger spreads. S [..]
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In a double-sided document, the combination of two facing pages, which are designed as a unit. Also, the adjacent inside panels of a brochure when opened.
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A film image that is larger than the original image to accommodate ink trapping. Reference: trapping.
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Definitions (3) 1. The difference between the current bid and the current ask (in over-the-counter trading) or offered (in exchange trading) of a given security;also called bid/ask spread.
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The full expanse of facing pages in an opening in a book or other bound publication. The page on the right-hand side is the recto; the one on the left is the verso. See also: double spread.
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1 a : the difference between any two prices for similar articles [the between the list price and the market price of an article] b : the difference between the highest and lowest prices of a product . [..]
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In page layout and printing, any two facing pages of a book, magazine, newspaper, or other publication.
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Gross profit. See gross profit; markup.
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The difference between the price at which a Market Maker is willing to buy a security, called a bid price, and the price at which the Market Maker is willing to sell it, called an ask price. The sprea [..]
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Two facing pages in a newspaper or magazine that are designed as one unit of interrelated articles.
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The price difference between two contracts. Holding a long and a short position in two or more related futures or options on futures contracts, with the objective of profiting from a change in the price relationship.
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When buying or selling a bond through a brokerage firm, an individual investor will be charged a commission or spread, which is the difference between the market price and cost of purchase, and sometimes a service fee. Spreads differ based on several factors including liquidity.
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The difference between the investment rate on cash collateral and the rebate rate of a loan; in investments, the difference between bid and asked price on a security or the difference between yields on or prices of two securities that have different characteristics or maturities. STRUCTURED REPO:
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1) Two facing pages; 2) See trapping
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The purchase of one futures delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity; the purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same d [..]
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Typically refers to a difference between a measure of yield for one asset class and a measure of yield for either a different subset of that asset class or a different asset class entirely.
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The difference between what the company earns on assets and what it credits to policyholders.
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This is the difference in two prices, for example the contango or backwardation
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A spread is simply a gap, or difference; so the ‘spread’ between two and five is three.
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The difference between a dealer's Buy Rate and Sell Rate for financing a loan or lease, typically around one percent. Dealers generally don't disclose this spread, so do your homework on the [..]
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The spread is the difference between the bid and ask price for a security. Various option trading strategies also use the term spread in their name, such as the Bull or Bear Spread or the Calendar Spr [..]
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The difference between two measurements. In stocks, the spread equals the difference between a bid (the highest price offered by a buyer), and the ask price (lowest price offered by a seller). For fix [..]
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The difference between the buy and sell price
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Number of basis points over a base rate index.
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The difference between funding costs and the rate of return to the lessor on a lease.
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The spread is the gap between bid and ask prices of a stock, option, or other security. This term is also used to generally describe a number of strategies that make use of different spreads between calls, puts and the underlying stock.
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The difference between the bid and the ask price of a security or asset.
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the difference between the bid and ask prices.
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The difference between the bid and ask of a quote.
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The difference between two measurements. In stocks, the spread equals the difference between a bid (the highest price offered by a buyer), and the ask price (lowest price offered by a seller). For fixed-income investments, the spread represents the difference in yield either for securities with the same credit ratings but different maturity dates, [..]
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The difference between two measurements. In stocks, the spread equals the difference between a bid (the highest price offered by a buyer), and the ask price (lowest price offered by a seller). For fix [..]
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The difference between the buying and selling rates or prices.
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(n) process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space(n) a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures(n) farm consisting of a large tract of land along with f [..]
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(1) The gap between the Bid and ask prices of a security, commodity or foreign exchange.
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spargo sparsi sparsum
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Maximum distance between two vertical planes tangent to a specified envelope and perpendicular to a plane through the core center. The spread are generally referred to the envelope corresponding to 0. [..]
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1) Two pages that face each other and are designed as one visual or production unit. 2) Layout of several photos, especially on facing pages.
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To smoke opium.
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The difference between the Buy and Sell rate.
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When buying or selling a bond through a brokerage firm, an individual investor will be charged a commission or spread, which is the difference between the market price and cost of purchase, and someti [..]
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Width between the forelegs when accentuated.
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difference between bid and offer price – one way in which banks make profits.
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Short for “point spread.”
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An abbreviated form of "pointspread."
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The predicted scoring differential between two opponents as quoted by a sports book. See "pointspread".
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An abbreviation of point spread
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Several torpedoes fired in rapid succession, each at a different angle so that they spread or "fan out."
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The difference between two rates of interest, yield or currencies.
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1) Difference between bid and asked prices on a security. 2) Difference between yields on or prices of two securities of differing sorts or differing maturities. 3) In underwriting, difference between [..]
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Width between the forelegs when accentuated.
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See bid/offer spread
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The spread is the term used to describe the difference between the offer price and the bid price.
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point spread
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The spread is the term used to describe the difference between the offer price and the bid price.
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The difference between the buying price and the selling price.
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The price which indicates the credit worthiness of an underlying asset.  SSIs
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1. The number of points that Las Vegas assigns to the favored team in order to get equal money bet on both teams. 2. A type of offensive formation with multiple receivers line up far from the tackles [..]
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The difference in price between the bid and the ask in a quote.
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  (1) Verb: to spread the hand, either as a claim or as a concession of the remaining tricks. (2) Noun: the difference between the minimum and maximum values shown by a particular bid; in Standard Ame [..]
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A melded set.
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An offensive formation with just one or no running backs in the backfield. Usually sees the offense with four or five wide receivers on the field instead of the normal two, thus ‘spreading’ the defence by stretching players across the pitch.
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(1) (verb) put down the dummy
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This is similar to the MOVE keyword, in that it allows organisms such as plants to MOVE. The principle differences are that (1) often this ability requires something additional (like the presence of a [..]
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For a casino to offer a particular game.
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A melded set.
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Difference between two prices, usually a buying and selling price.
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The difference between the interest rate charged to borrowers and the interest rate paid to depositors.
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Additional cost to the interest rate paid on a loan. Its level depends on the cost of funding for the bank granting the loan as well as the risk the borrower represents.
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The difference between the bid and offer (ask) prices; used to measure market liquidity. Narrower spreads usually signify high liquidity.
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The difference between the bid and ask price of a currency.
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The difference between the bid rate and the ask rate of a currency pair. Also known as the bid-ask spread.
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l) Positions held in two different futures contracts, taken to profit from the change in the difference between the two contracts' prices; e.g., long a January Soybean contract and short a March [..]
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A film image that is larger than the original image to accommodate ink trapping. Reference: trapping.
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The difference between the winning and losing score of a game. Example:
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An abbreviated form of "pointspread."
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The amount a dough or batter flattens out on a baking pan before the oven heat sets the proteins and starch;
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The difference between the bid and offer (ask) prices; used to measure market liquidity. Narrower spreads usually signify high liquidity.
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The difference between a bid (the price a broker or dealer is willing to buy a security or financial instrument) and ask (the price a broker or dealer is willing to sell a security or financial instru [..]
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Same as Point Spread. The differential expected between two opponents that is posted by the linemaker.
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Term for a weapon or bullet pattern which covers a wide area with many separate shots; can refer to either player or enemy weaponry.
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A film image that is larger than the original image to accommodate ink trapping. Reference, trapping
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A film image that is larger than the original image to accommodate ink trapping. Reference, trapping
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(1) Two pages that face each other and are created as one visual or production unit. (2) Method of slightly enlarging the size of an image to make a hairline trap with another image. Also called fatty [..]
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A film image that is larger than the original image to accommodate ink trapping. Reference: trapping.
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A film image that is larger than the original image to accommodate ink trapping. Reference, trapping
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the difference between the bid and ask prices for a stock. 
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The difference between the current bid and offer (ask) prices for a commodity or security.
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The difference between the bid price and the ask price. With penny stocks, you will generally see a larger price spread. You can learn all about bid, ask, and spread in several sections, starting with [..]
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 -The difference in price between where the buyers in a market are prepared to purchase a security, and where the sellers are willing to sell securities.
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The price difference between two related markets or commodities.
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A long market position and an offsetting short market position usually, but not always, in the same underlying market.
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The range between the asking price and actual bids for a particular stock.
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The difference in yield between a government benchmark bond and another fixed-income instrument with the same coupon rate and redemption date, due to a difference in the perceived credit-worthiness of [..]
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The difference between the grant price and fair market value of the underlying shares on the date of exercise.
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a position involving a long and short option of different strike prices or expirations, or both
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This is the amount that oddsmakers deem one team is favored over another team. For example, Cowboys -7 vs. Lions. This means the Cowboys are favored to win by 7 points.
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A shortened form of “point spread.”
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Also known as a point spread. Referring to the points given to the underdog to level the odds with the favourite.
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Another word for the point-spread.
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Short for point spread.
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An abbreviation of the phrase “point spread.”
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The difference between the cost of money and the yield on the investment.
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(1) The gap between bid and ask prices of a stock or other security. (2) The simultaneous purchase and sale of separate futures or options contracts for the same commodity for delivery in different mo [..]
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Spread may refer to: Statistical dispersion. Spread (food), an edible paste put on other foods. The score difference being wagered on in spread betting. Spread (rational trigonometry), the measure of [..]
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A spread is a food that is literally spread, generally with a knife, onto food products such as bread and crackers. Spreads are added to food in order to enhance the flavor or texture of the food, whi [..]
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Spread is a 2009 sex comedy film starring Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche and directed by David Mackenzie. The film was released under the name L.A. Gigolo in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, as To [..]
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The difference between the rate of interest charged to borrowers and the rate paid to lenders by a bank or FINANCIAL INSTITUTION. Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR)
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