The REIT's net, called AFFO in Green Street's parlance, was $2.05 a share that year, more than enough to cover the company's $1.86-a-share 1.86-a-share 1.86-a-share dividend
The independents, in industry parlance, are a diverse group that are smaller than major companies like Exxon Mobil and don't operate major-brand gas stations.
They exhibit what in penguin parlance is called "ecstatic behavior": that is, they entwine their necks, they vocalize to each other, they have sex.
Yet workplace parlance is not something that gets much attention in Justice Richard White's 120 page judgement.
Jump-flapping, as it is known in hawk parlance, is a sign that they are ready to venture out into the park and leave the nest for good.
To "deconflict," in military parlance, is to ensure that, in this case, Russian aircraft do not accidentally clash in any way with Western warplanes.
Oddly, it appears from this book that Wall Street parlance is light on the sports metaphors that permeate so much of American society.
Narrative art, in his parlance, is the more literal: art that simply tells a story, like a film or book (or a newspaper article).
("Statists," in the local parlance, are people who like "big government" -- that's a broad concept that can encompass space programs, public schools, war, gun control; really, anything to do with the government collecting and spending money, or otherwise telling people what to do and/or not do).
The memory screen, in Freudian parlance, is a remembered place or event that assumes greater importance in hindsight than it possessed at the time.
