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| Domain | Definition |
Economics | 1. A provision in a bilateral or multilateral commercial agreement permitting a signatory nation to change their obligations when imports threaten serious harm to the producers of competitive domestic goods. 2. A provision in a contract or other document permitting parties to avoid liability for nonperformance under certain conditions. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Qualification | Condition, proviso, prerequisite, contingency, stipulation, provision, specification, sine qua non; catch, string, strings attached; exemption; exception, escape clause, salvo, saving clause; discount; restriction; fine print. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ESCAPE CLAUSE |
| Specialty definitions using "ESCAPE CLAUSE": Trade Act of 1974. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Escape Clause (1996) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Theater & Movies | |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | We are not neglecting the safeguards provided by peril points, an escape clause, or the National Security Amendment. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
escape clause | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ESCAPE CLAUSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | mentesítő záradék, kivételt kikötő záradék, kitérő záradék, kitérő rendelkezés, fenntartást kikötő záradék. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | escapeay auseclay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-e-e-l-p-s-s-u" | |
-4 letters: accusals, capsules, escapees, euclases, saccules, scaleups, scapulae, scapulas, seascape, upscales. | |
-5 letters: accusal, accuses, calesas, calpacs, capless, capsule, casease, casuals, causals, clauses, elapses, escapee, escapes, euclase, palaces, pascals, pleases, saccule, scaleup, scapula, specula, upscale. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 53 43 41 50 45      43 4C 41 55 53 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01010011 01000011 01000001 01010000 01000101 00100000 01000011 01001100 01000001 01010101 01010011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E S C A P E   C L A U S E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0053 0043 0041 0050 0045      0043 004C 0041 0055 0053 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3953373550392374635555339 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Speeches | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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