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  • “product carrier” means a tanker engaged in the trade of carrying oil except crude oil.

  • The term "product costs" means costs that are associated with the production of a good, including the value of materials, direct labor costs, and direct overhead.

  • Exclusion of products covered by postal monopoly.—A product covered by the postal monopoly shall not be subject to transfer under this section from the market-dominant category of

  • The term "product identifier" means a standardized graphic that includes, in both human-readable form and on a machine-readable data carrier that conforms to the standard

  • For purposes of this paragraph, the term “product information” includes— (A) information describing the drug or device (such as drug class, device description, and features); (B) i

  • “competitive product” or “product in the competitive category of mail” means a product subject to subchapter II of chapter 36; and

  • “market-dominant product” or “product in the market-dominant category of mail” means a product subject to subchapter I of chapter 36;

  • The term “production” means growing, mining, harvesting, fishing, trapping, hunting, manufacturing, processing, or assembling a good. / The term “production” means growing, mining,

  • The term "production baseline" means the baseline established for the production of regulated substances under subsection (e)(1)(B).

  • Production-Certification Related Service Defined.—In this section, the term "production-certification related service" has the meaning given that term in appendix C of pa

  • The term “production expenditures” means the costs (whether or not incurred during the production period) required to be capitalized under subsection (a) with respect to the proper

  • The term "production facility" means (1) any equipment or device determined by rule of the Commission to be capable of the production of special nuclear material in such

  • The terms “contract” and “production flexibility contract” mean a production flexibility contract entered into under section 7211 of this title.

  • The term “production history” means the production history determined for a participating dairy operation under subsection (a) or (b) of section 9055 of this title .

  • “production inspection primary inspection agency” means a State agency or private organization that has been approved by the Secretary to evaluate the ability of manufactured home

  • The term “production payment” means a term overriding royalty satisfiable in cash or in kind— (A) contingent on the production of a liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon from particular re

  • The term "production period" means, when used with respect to any property, the period— (i) beginning on the date on which production of the property begins, and (ii) exc

  • The term “productive activity” means either a group or individual activity that is designed to allow prisoners determined as having a minimum or low risk of recidivating to remain

  • The term “productivity” means— (A) engagement in income-producing work that is measured by increased income, improved employment status, or job advancement; or (B) engagement in wo

  • the terms “Indian product” and “product of a particular Indian tribe or Indian arts and crafts organization” has the meaning given such term in regulations which may be promulgated

  • The term “product of discovery” includes without limitation the original or duplicate of any deposition, interrogatory, document, thing, result of the inspection of land or other p

  • the term “product of smelting or refining” means metals or metal-bearing materials resulting directly from smelting or refining processes, but does not include metal-bearing ores o

  • The term "product or material" means an article, material, or supply brought to the site by the recipient for incorporation into the building, work, or project. The term

  • The term “products” or “petroleum products” includes any article produced or derived in whole or in part from petroleum or any product thereof by refining, processing, manufacturin

  • The term “products of spent fowl” means commercial products produced from spent fowl.

  • Product support.—The term "product support" means the package of support functions required to field and maintain the readiness and operational capability of covered syst

  • Product support arrangement.—The term "product support arrangement" means a contract, task order, or any type of other contractual arrangement, or any type of agreement o

  • Product support integrator.—The term “product support integrator” means an entity within the Federal Government or outside the Federal Government charged with integrating all sourc

  • Product support provider.—The term “product support provider” means an entity that provides product support functions. The term includes an entity within the Department of Defense,

  • Product tank vessel.—The term "product tank vessel" means a double hulled tank vessel capable of carrying simultaneously more than 2 separated grades of refined petroleum

  • The term “profession” shall include but not be limited to architects, engineers, lawyers, physicians, surgeons, and teachers in elementary or secondary schools, colleges, academies

  • For purposes of this subsection, the term "professional" means an individual who is licensed by an official State authority to practice in the field of cosmetology, nail

  • the term “professional affiliation” shall mean staff privileges, medical staff membership, employment or contractual relationship, partnership or ownership interest, academic appoi

  • The term “professional analog video cassette recorder” means an analog video cassette recorder that is designed, manufactured, marketed, and intended for use by a person who regula

  • the term “professional assessment committee” means a group of at least three persons appointed by a local public housing agency or a nonprofit corporation and shall include qualifi

  • For purposes of paragraph (1), the term "professional athlete" means an individual who is employed as an athlete by— (A) a team that is a member of an association of 6 or

  • The term “professional boxing match” means a boxing contest held in the United States between individuals for financial compensation. Such term does not include a boxing contest th

  • For purposes of this section, the term “professional conduct or competence” means any of the following: (1) Direct patient care. (2) Clinical competence.

  • The term “professional development” has the meaning given the term in section 7801 of this title . / The term “professional development” means activities that— (A) are an integral

  • “professional employee” means— (A) an employee engaged in the performance of work— (i) requiring knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning customarily acquire

  • the term “professional individuals” includes but is not limited to, physicians, dentists, chiropractors, osteopaths, optometrists, other licensed practitioners of the healing arts,

  • In this section, the term "professional mariner" means an individual employed on a vessel of the Administration who has the necessary expertise to serve in the engineerin

  • the term “professional position” means a position that is classified to an occupational series identified by the Office of Personnel Management as a position that— (A) requires edu

  • The term “professional review action” means an action or recommendation of a professional review body which is taken or made in the conduct of professional review activity, which i

  • The term “professional review activity” means an activity of a health care entity with respect to an individual physician— (A) to determine whether the physician may have clinical

  • The term “professional review body” means a health care entity and the governing body or any committee of a health care entity which conducts professional review activity, and incl

  • the term “professional service employer” means any proprietorship, partnership, corporation, or other association or organization (i) owned or controlled by professional individual

  • The term “professional sports contract” means an agreement under which an individual is employed, or agrees to render services, as a player on a professional sports team, with a pr

  • the term “professional sports organization” means— (A) a person or governmental entity that sponsors, organizes, schedules, or conducts a competitive game in which one or more prof

  • The term “professional standards” means— (A) accounting principles that are— (i) established by the standard setting body described in section 19(b) of the Securities Act of 1933 [

  • In this paragraph, the term “professional student” means a student enrolled in a program of study that awards a professional degree, as defined under section 668.2 of title 34, Cod

  • In this section, the term “proficiency flying” means flying performed under competent orders by a rated or designated member of the armed forces while serving in a non-aviation ass

  • The term “proficiency flying duty” means flying performed under competent orders by rated or designated members while serving in assignments in which such skills would normally not

  • The term “profit” means any proceeds (including cash and other valuable consideration but not including amounts of such proceeds given as charitable contributions) for the sale, di

  • For purposes of this section, the term “profitability” means, with respect to a debtor, the amount of money that the debtor has earned or lost during current and recent fiscal peri

  • “profitable railroad” means a railroad which is not a railroad in reorganization. The term does not include the Corporation, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, or a railr

  • the term “Program” means the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Science and Technology Scholarship Program established under this section. / the term "Program"

  • “program activity” means a specific activity or project as listed in the program and financing schedules of the annual budget of the United States Government; and / the term "

  • The term “Program administrator” means an entity designated by the issuer to perform administrative duties, as provided in subsection (f)(2).

  • The term “Program agencies” means the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the United States Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Stand

  • The term “program beneficiary” means, in the case of a grant, contract, or other agreement designed to accomplish the objective of awarding or otherwise furnishing benefits or assi

  • The term "program capability document" has the meaning provided in section 2446a(b)(5) of this title. / The term "program capability document" means, with respe

  • The term “program component area” means a major subject area established under section 7501(c)(2) of this title under which is 1 grouped related individual projects and activities

  • “Program Component Areas” means the major subject areas under which related individual projects and activities carried out under the Program are grouped.

  • The term "program contract" means the contract between the Secretary and a producer entered into under this subchapter.

  • The term “program costs” means— (A) total salaries (including locality pay and bonuses), benefits, and employment taxes for special compliance personnel employed or trained under t

  • The terms "program cost targets" and "fielding target" have the meanings provided in section 2448a(a) of this title. / The terms “program cost targets” and “fie

  • The term "program effective date" means July 1, 2022.

  • For purposes of this subsection, the term “program entity” means any public or private entity which collects, compiles, or analyzes health professions data under a grant, contract,

  • “program evaluation” means an assessment, through objective measurement and systematic analysis, of the manner and extent to which Federal programs achieve intended objectives. / “

  • For purposes of this paragraph, the term “program integrity activities” means initial claims review activities, eligibility review activities, benefit payments control activities,

  • The term “program involved” means the program of grants established in section 300x or 300x–21 of this title, or both, as indicated by whether the State involved is receiving or is

  • In this paragraph, the term “program length” means the minimum amount of time in weeks, months, or years that is specified in the catalog, marketing materials, or other official pu

  • The term “program manager” means the program manager designated under subsection (f). / The term "program manager" means, with respect to a defense acquisition program, t

  • The term "programmatic environmental document" means an environmental impact statement or environmental assessment analyzing all or some of the environmental effects of a

  • The term "programmed force structure" means the set of units and organizations that exist in the current year and that is planned to exist in each future year under the t

  • The term "programmed manpower structure" means the aggregation of billets describing the full manpower requirements for units and organizations in the programmed force st

  • The term “program monitoring” means the collection, analysis, and use of routine program data to determine— (A) how well a program is carried out; and (B) how much the program cost

  • Definitions.—In this section, the terms "enterprise definition", "program objective memorandum process", "resource allocation plan", "strategic b

  • For purposes of this section, the terms “program of education” and “educational institution” have the meanings given the terms in section 3501 of title 38 . / The term "progra

  • The term “program of excellence” means any program carried out by a designated biomedical and behavioral research institution with an award under subsection (a) of this section, if

  • “Program Office” means the Great Lakes National Program Office established by this section; / The term "Program Office" means the Puget Sound Recovery National Program Of

  • The term “program of independent living services and assistance” includes (A) the services provided for in this chapter that are needed to enable a veteran to achieve independence

  • The term “program of study” means a coordinated, nonduplicative sequence of academic and technical content at the secondary and postsecondary level that— (A) incorporates challengi

  • The term “program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development” includes Indian housing programs assisted under title II 1 of the United States Housing Act of 1937.

  • The term “program or activity” means all of the operations of any entity as described in paragraph (1) or (2) of section 2000d–4a of this title . / the term “program or activity” m

  • The term “program or project” means, with respect to a field office of the Department of Energy, a program or project that is for defense environmental cleanup activities necessary

  • The term “Program participant” means, with respect to an entry of merchandise, any party entitled to make the entry under section 1484(a)(2)(B) of this title . / The term "pro

  • the term "Program plan" means a health benefits plan offered under the Program; and

  • The term “program planner” means a State or local government, including an Indian tribe, a person employed by the State or local government, or other person who supervised or admin

  • In this section, except as otherwise provided, the term “program-registered provider” means, with respect to a State, any health care provider that— (A) is licensed or otherwise au

  • The term "Programs" means— (A) the Nuclear Fuel Security Program established under subsection (e)(1); (B) the American Assured Fuel Supply Program of the Department; and

  • The term “program services” means treatment for substance abuse, or preventive services regarding such abuse, provided pursuant to an award of financial assistance under a designat

  • “program-specific audit” means an audit of one Federal program;

  • For purposes of this section, the term “prohibited activity” means the act of knowingly, materially, and directly contributing or attempting to contribute, through the provision of

  • For purposes of this section, the term "prohibited allocation" means—

  • The term “prohibited foreign entity” means a specified foreign entity or a foreign-influenced entity.

  • The term "prohibited method" has the meaning given the term in Article 2 of the Convention.

  • the term “prohibited object” means— (A) a firearm or destructive device or a controlled substance in schedule I or II, other than marijuana or a controlled substance referred to in

  • For purpose of this subsection, the term “prohibited payment” means— (A) any payment, in excess of the monthly amount paid under a single life annuity (plus any social security sup