An independent consultant who will recommend products from several companies.

Alternative spelling of Venus flytrap

An investor who invests money in an innovative enterprise for which the potential for high profit and the risk of loss are both considerable.

(idiomatic) With an intense motivation; in an extreme, intense, or violent manner.

(business) Money invested in an innovative enterprise in which both the potential for profit and the risk of loss are considerable.

The ventral tegmentum

plural of venereal disease

(law) To allege a place.

(finance) A type of bid at an auction which is made by the auctioneer on behalf of the vendor, without any desire to buy the article. This is used as a tactic to keep the bids moving, or to persuade buyers to pay more, or merely to have a higher price to report if the property is passed in. Such a bid is in essence a fiction; if not clearly announced as such, it approaches the deliberate deception of a dummy bid.

A small circular piece of puff pastry with a hole for various fillings, such as mushrooms, prawns, fruit, cheese, etc.