(Ireland) A fundraising event with raffles, cake sales, bingo etc; usually run by churches and schools.

Without reference to anything. / Without any apparent reason or purpose.

A calculation of the overall cost of capital used by an enterprise, made by totalling the cost of each source of capital used multiplied by its proportional share of the total capital used. Abbreviation: WACC.

(law) A formal statement of the rights of a specified group of people.

(astronomy) The region of the Universe in alignment with the galactic plane of the Milky Way where few galaxies were initially seen due to dust interfering with the view of ground-based telescopes.

A particular location which is used as an endpoint when measuring distances or charting maps. / A unique, intellectual premise used to relate other to ideas.

(inorganic chemistry) A name for hydrochloric acid, not now generally used in chemistry but still used in some commercial and domestic labelling.

(archaic) ethanol.

US standard spelling of centre of lift.

(idiomatic) The time at (or very close to) the start of the next hour of time.