distress Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
... The negative, harmful aspects of stress. Compare eustress...
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A Dictionary of Accounting (5 ed.)
... The seizure of goods as security for the performance of an obligation. The two principal situations covered by the remedy of distress are (1) between landlord and tenant when the rent is in arrears; and (2) when goods are unlawfully on an occupier’s land and have done or are doing damage. ...
distress Quick reference
A Dictionary of Animal Behaviour (2 ed.)
... A state of motivation relating to * stress that the animal is unable to cope with. An animal may be in distress as a result of physical environmental factors, such as excessive cold or heat, or as a result of * social interactions or * predator avoidance...
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A Dictionary of Law (10 ed.)
... n. The seizure of goods as security for the performance of an obligation. The two principal situations covered by the remedy of distress are (1) between landlord and tenant when the rent is in arrears ( see distress for rent ); and (2) when goods are unlawfully on an occupier’s land and have done or are doing damage. In the latter case the occupier may detain the chattel until compensation is paid for the...
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A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)
... The seizure of goods as security for the performance of an obligation. The two principal situations covered by the remedy of distress are (1) between landlord and tenant when the rent is in arrears; and (2) when goods are unlawfully on an occupier's land and have done or are doing damage. In the latter case the occupier may detain the chattel until compensation is paid for the...
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A Dictionary of Agriculture and Land Management
... Old remedy available to landlords for non-payment of rent in England and Wales which involved the landlord selling goods from the tenant to pay the outstanding amount (subject to restrictions on the types of goods that could be taken, and the procedure used). It was much criticized on human rights grounds, and also that it was not consistent with the implied covenant that landlords should allow their tenant to have quiet enjoyment. Therefore, in 2014 it was abolished and replaced by Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery (CRAR)...
respiratory distress Quick reference
Concise Medical Dictionary (10 ed.)
...distress severe difficulty in achieving adequate oxygenation in spite of significant efforts to breathe: it is usually associated with increased respiratory rate and the use of accessory muscles in the chest wall. It can occur in both obstructive and nonobstructive lung conditions. See adult respiratory distress syndrome ; airway obstruction ; dyspnoea ; respiratory distress syndrome ; stridor...
mental distress Reference library
Australian Law Dictionary (3 ed.)
...mental distress (pure mental distress or nervous shock ) In the UK and USA, pure mental distress will sound in damages for intentional torts (see Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd [ 1997 ] AC 655), but not in Australia. Pure mental distress, in the sense of the experience of negative emotions such as shame or horror (as opposed to psychiatric illness) does not sound in damages unless it was a consequence of infringement of a legal right or a bodily (physical)...
emotional distress Quick reference
A Dictionary of Public Health (2 ed.)
...emotional distress A term used in legal circumstances (e.g., in torts ) to describe damage of a nonphysical or pathological nature for which people may seek to claim compensation. ...
financial distress Reference library
The Handbook of International Financial Terms
...distress . A condition for a firm where it either cannot meet or has difficulty in meeting its fixed charges. See bankruptcy ; Chapter 11 ; insolvency ; workout...
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A Dictionary of Business and Management (6 ed.)
...distress The situation in which the activity of a business is influenced by the possibility of impending insolvency. The costs of distress can be divided into those related to bankruptcy and those incurred without bankruptcy. The costs of bankruptcy are those directly incurred in winding up or restructuring the business. The costs short of bankruptcy are those arising from a sudden change in suppliers’ and customers’ behaviour, prompted by their concerns over dealing with a potentially insolvent firm. They also include costs engendered by the diversion...
financial distress Quick reference
A Dictionary of Finance and Banking (6 ed.)
...distress A situation in which the activity of a business is influenced by the possibility of impending insolvency. The costs of distress can be divided into those related to bankruptcy and those incurred without bankruptcy. The costs of bankruptcy are those directly incurred in winding up or restructuring the business. The costs short of bankruptcy are those arising from a sudden change in suppliers’ and customers’ behaviour, prompted by their concerns over dealing with a potentially insolvent firm. They also include costs engendered by the diversion...
financial distress Quick reference
A Dictionary of Accounting (5 ed.)
...distress The situation in which the activity of a business is influenced by the possibility of impending insolvency. The costs of distress can be divided into those related to bankruptcy and those incurred without bankruptcy. The costs of bankruptcy are those directly incurred in winding up or restructuring the business. The costs short of bankruptcy are those arising from a sudden change in suppliers’ and customers’ behaviour, prompted by their concerns over dealing with a potentially insolvent firm. They also include costs engendered by the diversion...
respiratory distress n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Nursing (8 ed.)
...distress n. severe difficulty in achieving adequate oxygenation in spite of significant efforts to breathe. It is usually associated with increased breathing rate and the use of accessory muscles in the chest...
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A Dictionary of Dentistry (2 ed.)
...respiratory distress Severe difficulty in achieving adequate oxygen in the lungs in spite of efforts to breathe; it is usually associated with an increased rate of breathing ( respiratory rate ) and the use of muscles of the shoulder, girdle, and chest wall together with the diaphragm. It can occur in both obstructive and non-obstructive lung...
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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.)
... signals , a means of calling for help or assistance at sea. All ships over 300 tonnes are required to have equipment specified by Global Maritime Distress and Safety System ( GMDSS ) regulations. The following list of distress signals includes some of the required equipment, but is primarily intended as a guide for the crews of those vessels who cannot use such equipment because of malfunction, loss of power, etc. It must be understood that these signals must only be used if the vessel displaying or sending them is in imminent danger and that help is...
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A Dictionary of Law (10 ed.)
...of distress A court order giving the power to seize goods from a debtor to pay his creditors. See also distress...
distress relief quotient n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... relief quotient n. The ratio of verbal expressions of distress to verbal expressions of relief in a sequence of discourse, sometimes used as an index to track the process of improvement in psychotherapy or counselling...
distress, entry in Reference library
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (3 ed.)
..., entry in ‘A foreign vessel which takes refuge in port by reason of stress of weather or other disaster endangering its safety is exempt from the local jurisdiction’: O’Connell , International Law ( 1965 ), 685. The distress must be urgent and of grave necessity: Kate A. Hoff Claim (1929) 4 R.I.A.A. 444 . The immunity is not absolute; while it is an immunity from arrest and from paying local duties, it cannot be an immunity from every local law: O’Connell, supra , 687. For the purpose of the right of innocent passage through the territorial sea,...
respiratory distress syndrome Quick reference
A Dictionary of Public Health (2 ed.)
...respiratory distress syndrome A serious, sometimes fatal, condition of newborns, usually caused by hyaline membrane disease, sometimes by acute respiratory infection. In adults, this was manifest in the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome ( SARS ) in 2003 . ...
