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net international investment position

ultrahigh load-carrying capacity; ultrahigh load capacity

load carrying capacity

National Government Defrayment Act for Reconstruction of Disaster-Stricken Public Facilities

negative income tax; NIT

Mathematics

negative binomial distribution

oral glucose tolerance test; OGTT

complete defeat; losing all matches

Proverb

in victory, remember your humility; in defeat, remember your fighting spirit

Idiomatic expression

to ultimately fail despite being in a favourable position; to fail at the last moment; to win the battle but lose the war; to have the upper hand in sumo (technique) but lose the match

Computing

technical debt (implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an initial limited solution); design debt; code debt

peak-load station; peaking power plant; peaker plant

a series of bad events; one bad thing after another; negative chain reaction; domino effect of bad things

Law

Act on Entrepreneurs' Bearing of the Cost of Public Pollution Control Works

negative legacy; burdensome legacy

portion of a plot of land that is a private road

load-following operation (e.g. of a power plant)

environmental burden reduction; environmental impact reduction

Horse racing

impost; assigned weight

lost game; game with slim chances of winning

Historical term

female servant hired to take the blame for a noblewoman's farts

Historical term

female servant hired to take the blame for a noblewoman's misdemeanours and farts

Idiomatic expression; Rare term

to leave one's hometown to study; to carry a case of books

Idiomatic expression; Rare term

cornered animal; wounded boar