The ISC does, however, push back a little against agency definitions of metadata, which in the internet era has blurred with content: in certain circumstances, your exact location, internet history, or even passwords can be classed as metadata.
The Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency have also adopted this inter-agency definition, though the Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey published by the Fed defines small businesses as those with sales of $50 million or less.
In the context of homelessness prevention, a mis-match among agencies' definitions of the term "homelessness," can create friction between a state's Head Start program and HUD.
Free agency, by definition, runs counter to that.
Moreover, the agency's definition of a suspect case differs from that of the World Health Organization.
"Moral offenses" like prostitution and gambling also fall under the agency's definition of nondesirability, whether there is an arrest or not.
Under the transit agency's definition, trains are considered on time if they reach the last stop on their run within five minutes of the scheduled time.
Scott Regan, a spokesman for the hospital said the staff looked forward to meeting with Federal officials to learn the agency's definition of a human experiment.
An immigration service spokesman in Newark, Kerry Gill, said yesterday that he was unaware of anyone who had met the agency's definition of a hunger strike: a refusal to eat for 72 hours straight.
According to the agency's definition, depression is a "persistent sadness and a loss of interest in activities that people normally enjoy, accompanied by an inability to carry out daily activities for two weeks or more".
Rejecting the agency's definition as "a study in ambiguity," Justice Alito declared for a 5-to-4 majority that a supervisor is only that person with the authority to hire, fire, demote, promote, transfer or discipline an employee.
