(US) a government form of performance-based contracting that moves risk to industry

(idiomatic) Despite, irrespective of, notwithstanding.

The giving of national funds to subsidize a local or regional project. / Providing funds to an institution (such as a school) or person to subsidize a specific project or activity, such as a scholarship.

(law) An indefeasible right or title, distinguished from a contingent interest, which could be defeated (i.e. cease) if a certain event occurred.

(sciences) A period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence of major polar ice sheets that reach the ocean and calve icebergs.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, in. / (transitive) To get into or inside something, literally or figuratively. / (intransitive) To enter a place; to gain access.

(UK, slang) An exclamation of joy at one's success.

(nautical) to bring the yards more square to the fore and aft line

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Without light; somewhere that is dark. / (idiomatic) Without information.

(idiomatic) Of stocks, to buy when both demand and price are low, so as to sell when demand and price are high.