market clearing Quick reference
A Dictionary of Economics (5 ed.)
...market clearing The process of moving to a position where the quantity supplied is equal to the quantity demanded, or the assumption that economic forces always ensure the equality of supply and demand. The process of market clearing involves price adjustment until a market-clearing price is achieved. In some financial markets there is a market-maker who intermediates between the supply and demand to ensure that trades can always be made. Market clearing is closely connected with the concept of market equilibrium...
market clearing
Landscape History: The Countryside Quick reference
H. S. A. Fox
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...of population pressure. The evidence of the one‐inch map adds new touches to this picture of activity. The generally dispersed nature of settlement (about 38 names in the 25 square mile sample) matches the documentary evidence of 13th‐century land grants relating to assarts (clearings) in remote locations. The pattern made by the lanes is a tangled one with many loops which have no apparent rationale, a bequest perhaps from a pattern of haphazardly wandering tracks through heath and wood . Many of the place‐names tell of the wooded or heathy environments (a...
English, Scottish, and Anglo-Irish Family Names Reference library
Peter McClure and Patrick Hanks
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...Norse was similar in many ways to Old English but that there were also striking differences in the sound system, vocabulary, and personal names. So, for example, English placenames ending in - by ‘farm’ (e.g. Derby, see darby , kirby , boothby , catesby ) and - thwaite ‘clearing’ (e.g. micklethwaite , crosthwaite ) are of Old Norse origin and occur widely in those English counties settled by Danes and Norwegians. Synonyms such as Old Norse kirkja and Old English cirice ( kirk and church ), Old Norse bekkr and Old English brōc ( beck and ...
Churches in Context: The Jesus Movement in the Roman World Reference library
Daniel N. Schowalter
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...Hadrian 10–13). Passing through Gaul, he continued into the Germanic regions, where he lived with the troops guarding the borders, reinvigorating discipline among the legion and instituting numerous military reforms. These included regulating leaves of absence, clearing the camps of banqueting rooms and other places of leisure, and ordering that no one should serve as a soldier “younger than his strength allows, or older than humanity permits” ( Hadrian 10). From Germany, Hadrian crossed to Britain, first invaded by Julius Caesar...