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SEC

abbr.

Securities and Exchange Commission

sec¹

(sĕk)

adj.

Dry. Used of wines, especially champagne.

[French, from Old French, from Latin siccus.]

sec²

(sĕk)

n. Informal

A short space of time; a second: I'll help you in a sec.

[Short for second.]

sec³

abbr.

secant

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sec

(sɛk)

adj

1. (Brewing) (of wines) dry

2. (Brewing) (of champagne) of medium sweetness

[C19: from French, from Latin siccus]

sec

(sɛk)

informal short for second²: wait a sec.

sec

(sɛk)

abbreviation for

(Mathematics) secant

SEC

abbreviation for

(Stock Exchange) Securities and Exchange Commission

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sec

(sɛk)

adj.

(of wine) dry; not sweet.

[1885–90; < French; see sack³]

SEC

or S.E.C.,

Securities and Exchange Commission.

sec

1. secant.

2. second.

3. secondary.

4. secretary.

5. section.

6. sector.

7. according to.

[< Latin secundum]

sec

Abbreviation of secant

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Noun	1.	sec - 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites s, second time unit, unit of time - a unit for measuring time periods min, minute - a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile" leap second - a second (as measured by an atomic clock) added to or subtracted from Greenwich Mean Time in order to compensate for slowing in the Earth's rotation millisecond, msec - one thousandth (10^-3) of a second
	2.	sec - ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle secant circular function, trigonometric function - function of an angle expressed as a ratio of the length of the sides of right-angled triangle containing the angle
	3.	SEC - an independent federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors Securities and Exchange Commission independent agency - an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments
Adj.	1.	sec - (of champagne) moderately dry unsweet dry - (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation; "a dry white burgundy"; "a dry Bordeaux"

Translations

SEC

[ˌɛsiːˈsiː] n abbr (US) (=Securities and Exchange Commission) → COB f(= Commission des opérations de Bourse)

sec

[ˈsɛk] n (=second) → seconde f
Be with you in a sec → Je suis à toi dans une seconde.

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sec

abbr of second(s) → Sek.; wait a sec (inf) → Augenblick or Moment mal

abbr of secretary

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sec

[sɛk] n (fam) → attimo, secondo

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EAST CAPE--Fog--flash -single white with single bomb, 30 sec. intervals (new).

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Paradise is at Noisy le Sec, upon the site of the archbishop's chateau.

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Sec. 7 (1) - Causing or Conspiring with other persons to cause a mutiny or sedition in forces belonging to Her Majesty's Regular forces, Reserve forces, Auxiliary forces, or Navy.

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The ideal secretary must have two qualities: she must be able to sec. and she must think her employer a pig.

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Fragment #4 -- Scholiast on Aeschines in Ctes., sec. 160: He refers to Margites, a man who, though well grown up, did not know whether it was his father or his mother who gave him birth, and would not lie with his wife, saying that he was afraid she might give a bad account of him to her mother.

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"I tell you that they were served by Le Sec, sergeant of the city, at the Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon, and that that is where you are mistaken."

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Definition: Under Sec. 3401(d)(1), the term "employer" means the person for whom an individual performs, or has performed, any service, of whatever nature, as the employee of such person, except:

Highlights of the sec. 199 final regs

* Sec. 409A provides an exclusive list of permitted distributions; everything else is prohibited.

Deferred compensation for executives under sec. 409A

Sec. 382 limits a corporation's ability to use its net operating losses (NOLs) and other attributes after an ownership change.

Final Sec. 382 Regs. on distributions from qualified trusts

The SEC conducts both formal and informal investigations of possible securities law violations.

Responding to an SEC investigation: two attorneys review the dangers posed by an SEC probe, and the ways in which public companies could and should react to minimize the potential damage, including possible litigation

1, 1999, the FTB will disallow all Sec. 24402 deductions.

Dividend deductions; Farmer Bros. ruling: Rev. and Tax Code Sec. 24402 unconstitutional

Sec. 1.1363-1 .The purpose was to clarify two issues for financial institutions that operate as S corporations:

Prop. Regs. for S Corp. banking deductions