Business Topics Glossary

American company that supplies command and control, communications, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems and products.

The L. S. Starrett Company is an American manufacturer of tools and instruments used by machinists, tool and die makers, and the construction industry. Headquartered in Athol, MA. Domain: starrett.com

L&T Technology Services Limited (LTTS) is a technology company that provides engineering, research, and development (ER&D) services. Solutions include Flyboard (digital signage solution), Cogmation (device test automation framework), Avertle (AI predictive maintenance solution), and ARC (asset reliability centre). Headquartered in Vadodara, India. https://www.ltts.com/

Lab-grown meat is grown using cells taken from an animal, so it is virtually the same thing as meat taken from an animal raised on a factory farm, except the animal did not need to die for us to eat it. Those who have tried lab-grown meat often remark on its similarity to farm-raised meat.

Label Gator, also known as Label Gator Brand, is a labeling service that aims to allow growers to cut labor costs, reduce container inventory, and quickly react to changing label requirements. Offerings include various applicators, printers, rewinders, software, and labels. It is a product by the company Great Lakes Label. https://labelgatorbrand.com/

The Label Gator® Brand is a company that offers a complete line of automated barcode labeling equipment designed for greenhouse and nursery growers. Domain: labelgatorbrand.com

Labelbox solves the problem of taking artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives from research and development into production. In addition to working directly with their customers, Labelbox's main product is a platform that makes it easy to create and manage labeled data, enabling rapid deployment of artificial intelligence applications. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Labeling automation is a data labeling process that can be automated using current technologies, such as computer vision, OCR, image processing and object detection. All the label text content verification can be done by extracting the text from the label image and comparing it with the reference text.

The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA or Act), enacted in 1967, directs the Federal Trade Commission and the Food and Drug Administration to issue regulations requiring that all "consumer commodities" be labeled to disclose net contents, identity of commodity, and name and place of business of the product's manufacturer, packer, or distributor. Law specifies specific labeling requirements for each product. Under the act, the label for edible products, for example, must provide sodium content if other nutritional information is also shown. Labels must also show ingredients, in descending order from the one of highest quantity to the one of least quantity.

Labeling systems are used to apply preprinted labels to products, individual packages, cartons, cases and pallet loads to identify those unique items. They are also often used to apply labels to products in order to promote the manufacturer's brand image.

Business strategy that aims to reduce labor costs and spending, while maximizing business value

Strategy for governing and organizing employment

Labor Management Software is software that takes employee activity data and reports productivity levels on a group of employees, or individual employees

Labor Market Analytics are measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting on the supply of and demand for labor, in which employees provide the supply and employers provide the demand.

The relationship between the management of a company or organization and its workforce.

An organized association of workers, often in trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.

Laboratory automation is a multi-disciplinary strategy to research, develop, optimize and capitalize on technologies in the laboratory that enable new and improved processes.

Laboratory Billing Software refers to billing and accounts receivable system for laboratory environments. Supports intra-departmental data integration.

Laboratory Claims are a bill that healthcare providers submit to a patient's insurance provider. This bill contains unique medical codes detailing the care administered during a patient visit. The medical codes describe any service that a provider used to render care, including: A diagnosis.

Laboratory equipment refers to the various tools and equipment used by scientists working in a laboratory

Laboratory glassware refers to a variety of equipment in scientific work traditionally made of glass. Glass can be blown, bent, cut, molded, formed into many sizes and shapes, and is therefore common in chemistry, biology, and analytical laboratories.

Laboratory informatics is the specialized application of information technology aimed at optimizing and extending laboratory operations.

A laboratory information management system (LIMS) is a software-based laboratory and information management system with features that support a modern laboratory's operations.

Laboratory quality control is designed to detect, reduce, and correct deficiencies in a laboratory's internal analytical process prior to the release of patient results, in order to improve the quality of the results reported by the laboratory. Drug manufacturing companies must test personnel, environments, techniques, equipment, processes, and materials thoroughly for contaminants for undesirable chemical and microbial contaminants to ensure that their new drugs are predictable, consistent, effective, and, most importantly, safe for human use.

In general, reimbursement for laboratory services in this country comes from two third-party payer sources - government and private sector. There are many components to this complex reimbursement system, including how and when tests are covered (coverage decisions), procedure and diagnosis codes (identifying what was actually ordered and performed) and payment methodologies. The Medicare program is the most influential reimbursement system since it often impacts state programs and private payer reimbursement policies and payment levels. All public payers and approximately 67% of private payers use Medicare's payment methodologies as the basis for their own and as tools for negotiating discou

Laboratory Revenue Cycle Management is the financial process of collecting payments for medical bills to generate revenue for a healthcare lab. RCM combines administrative data, such as a patient’s personal information, insurer name and treatment codes, with financial billing information.

Laboratory robotics is the act of using robots in biology or chemistry labs. Laboratory processes are suited for robotic automation as the processes are composed of repetitive movements.

LabWare is a company that develops and implements Laboratory Information Management Systems and Electronic Laboratory Notebooks. The company is based in Wilmington, DE, and uses Smalltalk to develop both its LIMS and ELN.

Lacework is a company that provides end-to-end cloud security automation for AWS, Azure, and GCP with a comprehensive view of risks across cloud workloads and containers. Headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services is a diversified financial services company with two primary business lines: independent brokerage and advisory and investment banking and capital markets. Headquartered in Miami, FL.

Lakeland Bank offers a variety of personal banking, business banking & wealth management products to communities in New Jersey & New York.

Land contamination is a general term that describes land that is contaminated. Contaminated land contains substances in or under the land that are actually or potentially hazardous to health or the environment. Land contamination is a concern when hazardous materials, waste, or oil are present in any environment at potentially hazardous concentrations and the potential for contact with humans, wildlife, plants, and other living organisms exists

A land/location value tax (LVT), also called a site valuation tax, split rate tax, or site-value rating is an ad valorem levy on the unimproved value of land.

The landing gear is an essential system that allows the aircraft to start from the gate, taxi to the runway, to take off and to land safely.

The section of a website accessed by clicking a hyperlink on another web page, typically the website's home page.

Landing AI was founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, a globally recognized leader in artificial intelligence. Landing AI provides deployment-ready AI solutions and enterprise-wide transformation programs for customers worldwide. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Landis+Gyr is a publicly listed, multinational corporation that makes meters and related software for electricity and gas utilities. Headquartered in Cham, Switzerland. Founded in 1896.

Landlord–tenant law is a part of the common law that details the rights and duties of landlords and tenants. It includes elements of both real property law and contract law.

Landor is a global leader in brand consulting and design, Landor helps clients create brand-led growth. It was founded in 1941 by Walter Landor, who pioneered some reasearch, design, and consulting methodds that the braind industry still uses. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Landsat satellites provide high-quality, multi-spectral imagery of the surface of the Earth. These moderate-resolution, remotely sensed images are not just pictures, but contain many layers of data collected at different points along the visible and invisible light spectrum.

Process of designing an outdoor environment

Landscape design is an independent profession and a design and art tradition, practiced by landscape designers, combining nature and culture. In contemporary practice, landscape design bridges the space between landscape architecture and garden design.

An interpreter is a person who coverts a thought or expression in a source language into an expression with a comparable meaning in a target language either simultaneously in 'real time' or consecutively when the speaker pauses after completing one or two sentences.

Language I/O makes it easy for Fortune 500 companies to break through language barriers so that they can provide global customer support. LIO integrates seamlessly into CRM, empowering English-speaking customer support agents to chat, email and otherwise engage in real-time with customers in more than 100 languages. Headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

A company or partner that provides a broad range of translation or linguistic services

Language Testing (also known as Language Assessment) is the assessment of language ability, both theoretically and practically. Knowledge and proficiency are tested. Language competency testing is used in a variety of settings; language exams in school contexts, testing language skills to perform a certain job or task in the workplace, immigration contexts, citizenship contexts, and asylum contexts. There are many types and forms of language testing, including language proficiency tests, aptitude tests, diagnostic tests, placement tests, achievement tests, reading tests, speaking tests, writing tests, listening tests, grammar tests, vocabulary tests.

LanguageLine Solutions is a translation and localization company that provides on-demand and onsite language interpretation and document translation services worldwide for law enforcement, healthcare organizations, legal courts, schools, and businesses in over 240 languages. Headquartered in Monterey, California. Founded in 1982. Website https://www.languageline.com

Portable computer

The Laptop Shortage refers to the shortage of semi-conductors across the globe that has resulted in supply issues for everything from computers, phones and gaming consoles to new cars.

Laravel is an open-source PHP framework, which is robust and easy to understand. It follows a model-view-controller design pattern. Laravel reuses the existing components of different frameworks which helps in creating a web application. The web application thus designed is more structured and pragmatic.

In general, a Large Group Health Plan is a group health plan that covers employees of an employer that has 51 or more employees. In some states large groups are defined as 101 or more.

Large-cap stocks—also known as big caps—are shares that trade for corporations with a market capitalization of $10 billion or more. 1 Large-cap stocks tend to be less volatile during rough markets as investors fly to quality and stability and become more risk-averse.

Most are either LED, LCD or Plasma and can be used to display television through the HDMI cable, digital signage, welcome boards and messages.

Lark Health is a healthcare company that uses a combination of artificial intelligence, coaching, and health tracking to help consumers make behavioral changes to more effectively manage their chronic conditions. Headquartered in Mountain View, California. Founded in 2011. Operating as Lark Technologies, Inc.

Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI) (NSE:LTI) is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company. Headquartered in Mumbai, India. Founded in 1997 as a subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Limited. Website https://www.lntinfotech.com

A resort city located in the US state of Nevada.

LASCOM from Aptean is a software development company that offers prepackaged, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, dedicated to development and portfolio management of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG). Headquartered in Velizy, France. Founded in 1989. Website http://www.lascom.com/

A printer, linked to a computer, producing good-quality printed material by using a laser to form a pattern of electrostatically charged dots on a light-sensitive drum, which attracts toner.

Laser-Sintering is an additive manufacturing (AM) technique that uses a laser as the power and heat source to sinter powdered material (typically nylon or polyamide), aiming the laser automatically at points in space defined by a 3D model, binding the material together to create a solid structure.

Laserfiche is a privately owned software development company that creates enterprise content management, business process automation, workflow, records management, document imaging and webform software. Headquartered in Long Beach, CA.

The last mile or last kilometer is a colloquial phrase widely used in the telecommunications, cable television and internet industries to refer to the final leg of the telecommunications networks that deliver telecommunication services to retail end-users (customers).

Lastline provides industry leading AI-powered network security solutions. They provide complete data breach protection with sophisticated AI technology in the cyber security field. Headquartered in Redwood City, California.

LastPass is a software development company that provides password and identity management solutions. Features offered include password manager, password vault, save and autofill, password generator, dark web monitoring, password sharing, administrator controls, and security dashboard. The company offers personal and business plans. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. https://www.lastpass.com/

Later is a social media management platform and link in bio tool for every social network. Plan, analyze, and publish content in advance so users are able to save time and grow their business. Previously known as Latergramme. Headquartered in Vancouver, BC. Domain: later.com

Lateral movement is a means to an end; a technique used to identify, gain access to and exfiltrate sensitive data. It is when an attacker gets hold of one asset within a network and then spreads their reach from that device to others within the same network.

Latham & Watkins is an American multinational law firm that has practices in a wide spectrum of transactional, litigation, corporate and regulatory areas. Founded in 1934. Website http://www.lw.com

Lathrop GPM LLP is a law firm that was formed in 2020 through the combination of two 100+-year firms: Lathrop Gage (established in Kansas City in 1873) and Gray Plant Mooty (established in Minneapolis in 1866). Lathrop GPM specializes in franchise & distribution; health law; higher education; M&A; nonprofit & tax-exempt organizations; life sciences; intellectual property; insurance recovery; tax credits; environmental law; tort litigation; energy; corporate law; labor & employment; business litigation; trusts & estates; entrepreneurial services; real estate; cybersecurity & data privacy. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Website http://www.lathropgpm.com

California based technology provider that delivers predictive marketing and sales cloud applications to B2B companies.

A launch event is the first event or party held at the start of a conference or large event.

Lauterbach is the world's largest producer of complete, modular and upgradeable microprocessor development tools worldwide with experience in making world class debuggers and real-time trace since 1979. Headquartered in Germany. Domain: lauterbach.com

Law practice management software is software designed to manage a law firm's case and client records, billing and bookkeeping, schedules and appointments, deadlines, computer files and to facilitate any compliance requirements such as with document retention policies, courts' electronic filing systems and, in the UK, the Solicitors' Accounts Rules as defined by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

Law Practice Optimization, or Legal Practice Optimization, or simply LPO as it is also known, represents the practice carried out by Law Practice Optimizers of improving the efficiency and client/attorney relationships within a law firm and improves the client intake of the firm.

Lawn care software is a solution designed for lawn care companies. It aims to assist lawn care business owners in managing and running their businesses. Lawn care software provides a platform to manage clients, quoting, employee scheduling and dispatch, time tracking, invoicing, equipment, and more.

LawPay is the number 1 legal billing and payments software for law firms. Vetted and approved by 125+ state and local bar associations. Headquartered in Austin, TX.

Rules and administrative codes issued by governmental agencies at all levels, municipal, county, state and federal.

Lay-Buy provides sellers the opportunity to increase sales and improve cash flow by offering buyers the choice of affordably paying for their product purchases or service offering via one down-payment and balance over monthly instalments. Cash flow is improved due to the seller receiving the down payment, instalment payments and then only delivering the product after they have received the final instalment payment.

In the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking, the physical layer or layer 1 is the first and lowest layer. The implementation of this layer is often termed PHY. The physical layer consists of the basic networking hardware transmission technologies of a network. It is a fundamental layer underlying the logical data structures of the higher level functions in a network.

A discharge, especially temporary, of a worker or workers

Lazard is a financial advisory and asset management firm headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda, that engages in investment banking, asset management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients.

LBMC Family of Companies is a Tennessee-based accounting, business advisory and professional servies firm. The LBMC organization began in 1984 with the formation of the CPA firm.

Uses LCD technologies to display content such as digital images, video, streaming media, and information.

Le New Black is an order management system for retailers, brands and wholesalers. It lets brand and retailers set up virtual showrooms and develop sales oversight using a sales management system. Headquartered in Paris, France. Domain: lenewblack.com/

Lead Forensics is the software that reveals the identity of your anonymous website visitors, turning them into actionable sales-ready leads in real-time, at your fingertips.

The action or process of identifying and cultivating potential customers for a business's products or services.

A consultant that helps generate marketing leads.

Services and strategies that generate leads.

Software that automates the capture, segmentation and assignment of leads to improve targeted marketing communications and shorten sales cycles

LeadGenius uses a unique combination of data science and skilled human researchers to produce the highest quality B2B data available anywhere.

A set of methodologies, systems, and practices designed to generate new potential business clientele, generally operated through a variety of marketing campaigns or programs.

Lead Matching technologies use AI to match leads to the proper account when they are registered in a system.

The process of developing relationships with buyers at every stage of the sales funnel, and through every step of the buyer's journey.

A lead that can convert into an actual sale of your product or service.

Lead Routing designates a process of incoming lead distribution among sales agents.

A methodology used to rank prospects against a scale that represents the perceived value each lead represents to the organization.

Lead to Account Matching is the (automated) connecting of a lead to the account that they represent.

Lead to cash is the name given to an end-to-end, top-level business-process that begins with marketing and ends with revenue collection. Stages along the way include sales management, CPQ (configure, price and quote), customer service, project management, order management, and revenue management.

The process of following up with prospects who have expressed interest in a product or service.

Lead411 is a B2B Lead Intelligence software platform that provides corporate and contact context to sales and marketing teams in order to increase their lead identification and conversion rates.

Leadership Assessment is a process for identifying and describing an individual's unique characteristics as they pertain to leading, managing, and directing others and how such characteristics fit into a given position's requirements.

Leadership coaching is an individualized process that builds a leader's capability to achieve short- and long-term organizational goals.

Leadership development expands the capacity of individuals to perform in leadership roles within organizations. Often as a program or activity that makes people become better leaders.

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is one of the most popular green building certification programs used worldwide.

Strategic leadership refers to a manager's potential to express a strategic vision for the organization, or a part of the organization, and to motivate and persuade others to acquire that vision. Strategic leadership can also be defined as utilizing strategy in the management of employees.

Training for a person who does the following: creates an inspiring vision of the future, motivates and inspires people to engage with that vision.

Leadfeeder is a company that offers a B2B lead generation software that identifies website visitors, how they got there, their behavior, and their intent to purchase. Solutions include lead generation, account based marketing, website visitor tracking, and sales prospecting. Their products include web visitors, connectors, and IP enrich API. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. https://www.leadfeeder.com/

California based company providing predictive marketing and sales cloud applications to business-to-business companies.

Strategies used for process improvement

A type of hog (pork) that can be easily traded in mercantile and option exchanges.

Method for eliminating waste within a manufacturing system

A lean organizational structure is a structure that is designed to create more customer value using fewer resources than a traditional organizational structure. Members of an organization that utilizes a lean structure focus on the value stream the organization uses to deliver goods and services to their customers.

Lean project management is the application of lean manufacturing principles to the practice of project management. The goal of lean project management is to maximize value while minimizing waste.

LeanData provides a lead management solution to help companies with account-based marketing.

Leanplum is the mobile marketing platform built for engagement. With a focus on helping brands create meaningful experiences for their users, Leanplum combines multi-channel messaging and in-app solutions in a single platform.

A Learning Experience Platform (LEP/LXP) is a cloud offering that focuses on delivering a personalized learner experience – one that goes beyond the traditional Learning Management System (LMS) – for enterprise Learning & Development (L&D).

A software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of educational course or training programs.

A software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of educational courses or training programs.

In the context of student affairs/co-curricular learning, this refers to the ways students can learn skills outside of the classroom. Pathways are options that are self-determined by the student (e.g. a leadership skills pathway)

Learning Pool’s team creates the content and technology solutions that engage and empower modern learners around the world. Headquartered in Derry, UK.

LearnUpon LMS is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, Learning Management System. It helps you to deliver corporate training at scale. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

A lease management software is a program that has been specially developed to help landlords and property managers organize their rental properties, accounts, finance and tenants.

A leased line is a private bidirectional or symmetric telecommunications line between two or more locations provide in exchange for a monthly rent.

Leaseweb is a Dutch cloud computing and web services company with offices in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Leaseweb is a subsidiary of OCOM, an internet services company headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Parent organization is OCOM.

Determining the accounting methodology of a lease with the two most common types being operating and financing (formerly “capital”) leases.

The principle of Least Privilege means giving a user account or process only those privileges which are essential to perform its intended function. The principle applies also to a personal computer user who usually does work in a normal user account, and opens a privileged, password protected account (that is, a superuser) only when the situation absolutely demands it.

Least Cost Routing (LCR) refers to choosing the best path for outbound phone calls (also known as termination) based on the lowest available cost for the route between the caller and the destination.

Processes employees use to request time away from work and supervisors use to grant or deny leave based on organization policies

A period of time that one must be away from one's primary job, while maintaining the status of employee.

A billboard that displays digital images that are changed by a computer every few seconds.

Digital signage uses technologies such as LCD, LED and Projection to display content such as digital images, video, streaming media, and information.

A flat panel display, which uses an array of light-emitting diodes as pixels for a video display.

A flat panel display, which uses an array of light-emitting diodes as pixels for a video display.

LeddarTech is a leader in environmental sensing solutions for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems. LeddarTech provides the most flexible, robust and accurate sensing technology for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD). Headquartered in Quebec, Canada. Domain: leddartech.com

Lee Hecht Harrison, LLC operates as a talent mobility company. The company offers career transition and outplacement, leadership development, change management, and employee engagement solutions to organizations. Lee Hecht Harrison serves its customers globally. It is headquartered in Maitland, FL, and its parent organization The Adecco Group.

Legacy data are enterprise essential information that is stored in an old or obsolete format or computer system.

A financial strategy that prepares a person to bequeath his or her assets to a loved one or next of kin after death, usually organized by a financial advisor

Legacy Supply Chain is a logistics company that provides third-party logistics solutions; warehousing and distribution, e-commerce fulfillment, transportation brokerage, and dedicated fleet. Headquartered in Franklin, Indiana. https://legacyscs.com/

Of, based on, or concerned with the law.

Free legal advice or representation for a person who cannot afford it.

Legal analytics is the management process of extracting actionable knowledge from data to assist in-house legal leaders and decision-makers on topics as diverse as matter forecasting, process improvement, comparative costs, billing optimization, resource management, and financial operations.

Legal Bill Review (LBR) refers to process of reviewing and analyzing legal bills against any billing guidelines, service level agreements, applicable laws and other generally accepted standards. LBR plays a vital role in litigation spend management through the review and analysis of law firm invoices

Legal Client Intake, in law firms, is the process of onboarding new clients and acquiring the personal information that is needed to open their legal cases. The client intake process can be an incredibly time-consuming exercise for solo and small firm attorneys.

Legal Education is the education of individuals in the principles, practices, and theory of law. It pertains to the news and coverage related to legal education, law schools, trends in legal education, bar exams, competitive law schools.

A legal hold (also known as a litigation hold) is a notification sent from an organization's legal team to employees instructing them not to delete electronically stored information (ESI) or discard paper documents that may be relevant to a new or imminent legal case.

A process that an organization uses to preserve all forms of relevant information when litigation is reasonably anticipated.

Legal malpractice is the term for negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, or breach of contract by a lawyer during the provision of legal services that causes harm to a client. Coverage includes: new stories and case digests focused on key court decisions and issues, as well as news stories on prominent lawyers in trouble and articles of advice.

Legal matter management or matter management refers to activities involved in managing all aspects of the corporate legal practice ('matters').

Legal Matter Management Software systems serve a variety of functions including conflict and ethics control, accurate matter opening, day-to-day matter work, business intelligence, and marketing.

Legal Operations is the set of business activities, processes, and people that maximize an in-house legal team's ability to protect and grow the company.

Legal protection insurance, also known as legal expenses insurance or simply legal insurance, is a particular class of insurance which facilitates access to law and justice by providing legal advice and covering legal costs of a dispute, regardless of whether the case is brought by or against the policyholder.

Law practice management (LPM) is the management of a law practice. In the United States, law firms may be composed of a single attorney, of several attorneys, or of many attorneys, plus support staff such as paralegals/legal assistants, secretaries (including legal secretaries), and other personnel. Law practice management is the study and practice of business administration in the legal context, including such topics as workload and staff management; financial management; office management; and marketing, including legal advertising. Coverage includes legal practice-specific news, as well as business development and lateral hiring trends.

The practice of a law firm or corporation obtaining legal support services from an outside law firm.

Legal Professional Privilege is in common law jurisdictions, legal professional privilege protects all communications between a professional legal adviser (a solicitor, barrister or attorney) and his or her clients from being disclosed without the permission of the client.

Legal Project Management is the application of the concepts of project management to the control and management of legal cases or matters. Practitioners of legal-project management apply it to the mechanics and business of providing legal services rather than to the substantive legal work itself.

The purpose of legal research is to find "authority" that will aid in finding a solution to a legal problem. Primary authorities are the rules of law that are binding upon the courts, government, and individuals. Examples are statutes, regulations, court orders, and court decisions.

Legal spend management is the practice of controlling outside counsel spend. Management of outside counsel spend involves having visibility of spend, identifying and actioning cost-reduction opportunities, and budgeting future spend.

Legal Translation Services are services that convert legal documents from one language to another.

Annual conference for law professionals focused on legal technology

Legion’s industry-leading, AI-powered workforce management (WFM) platform optimizes labor efficiency and employee experience simultaneously – at scale. Headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

A legitimate interest is a legal standard used by a court in a legal proceeding. The standard is used to determine whether a party has a specific stake in the legal issue that the court is hearing.

Leica Geosystems (formerly known as Wild Heerbrugg or Wild) is a company that produces products and systems for surveying and geographical measurement for various industries, such as aerospace and defense, safety and security, construction, and manufacturing. Products include total stations, GNSS systems, laser scanners, mobile mapping systems, airborne systems, UAV systems, and more. Headquartered in Switzerland. https://leica-geosystems.com/

Leica Microsystems GmbH is a German microscope manufacturing company. It is a manufacturer of optical microscopes, equipment for the preparation of microscopic specimens and related products. There are ten plants in eight countries with distribution partners in over 100 countries. Headquartered in Wetzlar, Germany. Domain: leica-microsystems.com

Leidos, formerly known as Science Applications International Corporation, is an American Defense, Aviation, Information Technology, and Biomedical Research company headquartered in Reston, Virginia, that provides scientific, engineering, systems integration, and technical services.

Lein is a right to keep possession of property belonging to another person until a debt owed by that person is discharged.

L.E.K. Consulting is a management consulting firm. Headquartered in London and Boston, MA, the company's primary service lines consist of corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and operations.

Lemonade Insurance Company is an American property and casualty insurance company offering renters and home insurance policies for homes, apartments, co-ops, and condos in many US states in addition to content and liability policies in Germany and the Netherlands. They are a licensed insurance carrier, offering homeowners and renters insurance powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics. By replacing brokers and bureaucracy with bots and machine learning, Lemonade promises zero paperwork and instant everything. And as a Certified B-Corp, where underwriting profits go to nonprofits, Lemonade is remaking insurance as a social good, rather than a necessary evil. Headquartered in

A cloud based e-commerce platform.

Lenders mortgage insurance (LMI), also known as private mortgage insurance (PMI) in the US, is insurance payable to a lender or trustee for a pool of securities that may be required when taking out a mortgage loan.

LendingClub is a financial services company that is engaged in operating an online lending marketplace platform that connects borrowers and investors for the provision of the loan facility. Headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2006. Website https://www.lendingclub.com

Lendio is a finance brokerage that specializes in helping small business get loans or other lines of credit.

LenelS2 is a global leader in advanced physical security solutions, including access control, video surveillance and mobile credentialing. Headquartered in the United States

Lennar is one of the Nation's leading homebuilders providing homes for first-time, move-up, luxury, urban and active adult buyers. Lennar also provides financial services to our buyers through Lennar Mortgage and Lennar Title. Founded in 1954. Headquartered in Miami, FL. Domain: lennar.com

Chinese-American multinational company that develops, manufactures, and markets PC products.

Lenovo TruScale Infrastructure Services is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service acquisition model for its product portfolio.The IT infrastructure solutions include TruScale Infinite Storage, TruScale Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure, TruScale Hybrid Cloud with VMware, TruScale Multi-cloud with Deloitte, TruScale for Hosted Desktops, TruScale for High Performance Computing. Lenovo TruScale Infrastructure Services offers a pay-as-you-go business model, integration with other TruScale solutions, 24/7 proactive monitoring, management, and services. Customers can use and pay for on-premise data center hardware and services without having to purchase the equipment.

Lepide is a global provider of data security solutions and helps enterprises improve data protection, meet compliance, and detect/react to threats through their Data Security Platform. Headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2005.

Less than Container Load (LCL) is a terminology used in the world of transportation - both sea and land. It denotes a situation where a container is filled up with various cargos, belonging to more than one shipper.

Less-than-truckload shipping or less than load (LTL) is the transportation of relatively small freight. The alternatives to LTL carriers are parcel carriers or full truckload carriers. Also known as Less than Load, it means that the transporations of products does not require a full truckload due to the smaller nature of the parcel. Therefore, there are typically many separate shipments being transported on one truck.

Lessard Design Inc is a company that provides provides architecture, planning and interior design services for new construction, redevelopment, adaptive re-use, renovation and expansion projects. Headquartered in Vienna, Virginia. https://www.lessarddesign.com/

Lessonly is powerfully simple training software that helps teams learn, practice, and do better work.

A letter issued by a bank to another bank (typically in a different country) to serve as a guarantee for payments made to a specified person under specified conditions

Global network company focused on managed security, network, voice, and data services.

Level Controllers monitor liquid levels in vessels and send a pneumatic signal to a local control system or directly to a Control Valve.

A level sensor is a device for determining the level or amount of fluids, liquids or other substances that flow in an open or closed system.

Level Transmitters are sensors with an electrical transmission output for remote indication of liquid, powder or bulk level. Capacitive, float, mechanical, submersible, and ultrasonic models are the different types available of level transmitters.

LevelJump is a sales readiness program built inside Salesforce. It includes coaching, training, and enablement that maximizes productivity for remote teams. Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

LevelTen Energy is a renewable energy marketplace and procurement platform for both the PPA buyers and sellers. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

LevelUp is an American mobile ordering and mobile payments platform created by Boston, Massachusetts-based start-up SCVNGR.

Lever is a recruiting software and applicant tracking system company.

The purchase of a controlling share in a company by its management, using outside capital

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP is a U.S. law firm specializing in insurance defense litigation, corporate and transactional law. Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. Founded in 1979. Website https://lewisbrisbois.com

Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a disease associated with abnormal deposits of a protein called alpha-synuclein in the brain.

Lex Mundi is a professional services network established in 1989. The network provides information to its members about developments in local and global law. Headquartered in Houston, Texas. Website https://www.lexmundi.com/

Lexer's CDP helps brands genuinely understand their customers and engage them with the experiences they deserve. Headquartered in Australia.

LexisNexis Group is a corporation providing computer-assisted legal research as well as business research and risk management services. During the 1970s, LexisNexis pioneered the electronic accessibility of legal and journalistic documents.

LexisNexis InterAction is a flexible and uniquely designed CRM platform that drives business development, marketing, and increased client satisfaction for legal and professional services firms.

Lexmark International, Inc. is a privately held American company that manufactures laser printers and imaging products. The company is headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky. Since 2016 it has been jointly owned by a consortium of three Chinese companies: Apex Technology, PAG Asia Capital, and Legend Capital.

LG Ads is LG's advertising service that combines cross-screen TV and video inventory with TV analytics into a unified platform for marketers. It is a leader in helping brands find unduplicated reach across fragmented TV landscape.

LG Corporation a South Korean multinationalconglomerate corporation with business in electronics, telecommunications, and chemicals.

LG Electronics is a South Korean multinational electronics company headquartered in Yeouido-dong with business units in: home entertainment, mobile communications, home appliance & air solution, and vehicle components.

Smartphone line designed by LG

Smartphone line designed by LG

Television produced by LG

An investment strategy of a company or individual based on the cash flows needed to fund future liabilities.

A published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation.

Liberty Broadband Corp. operates as a holding company, which engages in cable services and wireless telecommunications businesses. It operates through its subsidiaries, Charter Communications, Inc and TruePosition, Inc

Liberty Mutual Insurance is an American diversified global insurer and one of the largest property and casualty insurer in the United States. Headquartered in Boston, MA. Founded in 1912. Domain: libertymutualgroup.com

A benchmark rate that some of the world's leading banks charge each other for short-term loans.

Libris specialises in product data integration and brand management. From creation to customer, manage your data on multiple channels simultaneously. Headquartered in Herts. The domain is librissystems.com.

The holder of a license.

The person who grants a license to another, the latter called the licensee.

Lidar is a surveying method that measures distance to a target by illuminating the target with pulsed laser light and measuring the reflected pulses with a sensor. Differences in laser return times and wavelengths can then be used to make digital 3-D representations of the target.

Life cycle assessment, or LCA, is a methodology for assessing environmental, social, and economic impacts associated with all the stages of the life cycle of a commercial product, process, or service.

Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) provides consulting, engineering, information technology and education solutions for private industry, public entities, government organizations, and the military. Headquartered in Charleston, SC. Founded in 1976.

Life Image is the world's largest healthcare network for exchanging clinical and operational information, including medical images. They orchestrate the real time flow of any and all clinical information across a patient's journey. Headquartered in Newton, MA.

Insurance that pays out a sum of money either on the death of the insured person or after a set period.

A lift gate refers to a foldable metal platform that is mounted on the back of a commercial truck. In countries outside of the U.S., the term “tailgate” may be used instead of liftgate. And in the U.S., “liftgate” and “lift gate” are used interchangeably.

LifeLock Inc. is an American identity theft protection company based in Tempe, Arizona. LifeLock's system monitors for identity theft, the use of personal information, and credit score changes. LifeLock was acquired by computer security company Symantec in 2017.

A free and open source enterprise portal software product primarily used to power corporate intranets and extranets

Liferay, Inc., is an open-source company that provides free documentation and paid professional service to users of its software. Mainly focused on enterprise portal technology, the company has its headquarters in Diamond Bar, California. Founded in 2004. Domain: liferay.com

LifeSaver Mobile helps companies prevent employee phone use while driving by automatically detecting drives and blocking cell phones, with no beacons or dongles. They provide an overall fleet safety solution focused on preventing distracted driving. Headquartered in San Jose, California.

Lifesize is a video and audio telecommunications company in the United States which provides high definition videoconferencing endpoints and accessories, touchscreen conference room phones and a cloud-based video collaboration platform.

An asset management and valuation method that assumes assets produced or acquired last are the ones used, sold or disposed of first; LIFO assumes an entity sells, uses or deposes of its newest inventory first.

Cost flow assumption that goods last added to inventory are assumed to be the first goods removed from inventory for sale

Lift and shift is a term used to describe the strategy of removing workloads and tasks from one storage location and placing them in another, usually cloud-based, location.

A wastewater lift station is a pumping station that moves wastewater from a lower elevation to a higher elevation.

Lifting equipment, also known as lifting gear, is a general term for any equipment that can be used to lift loads.

A ligase, in biochemistry, is an enzyme that can catalyze the joining of two large molecules by forming a new chemical bond.

A type of petroleum that contains small amounts of hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide.

Two-lead semiconductor light source

Lightbeam Health Solutions has a model for managing patient populations and associated risk agreements in value-based care. Through the use of precise, near real-time analytics, Lightbeam Health Solutions' platform facilitates end-to-end population health management for ACOs, payers, provider groups, health systems, and other healthcare organizations. Headquartered in Irving, TX. Founded in 2013. Operating as Lightbeam.

Lighthouse Global simplifies ediscovery and information governance with intuitive technology solutions and comprehensive service offerings. Headquartered in Seattle, WA. Founded in 1995. Website https://lighthouseglobal.com/

Lighting control is the ability to regulate the level and quality of light in a given space for specific tasks or situations.

Lighting equipment that is a permanent installation

Activity of placing a lighting fixture in position for use

Lightricks is an winning app developer and a company that develops video and image editing mobile apps, known particularly for its selfie-editing app, Facetune. Headquartered in Israel. Domain: lightricks.com

Lightspeed Commerce (NYSE: LSPD) (TSX: LSPD) is a point-of-sale and e-commerce software provider. Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 2005 by Dax da Silva. Website https://www.lightspeedhq.com/

Lightspeed Systems is a company that builds and sells SaaS content-control software, mobile device management, alert software, and classroom management software to K–12 schools. Headquartered in Austin, Texas. https://www.lightspeedsystems.com/

LightStream is an American online lender that is a division of Truist Bank. Truist was formed in December 2019, as the result of a merger of equals between SunTrust Bank and BB&T. It provides online lending offer loans for auto, home improvement, and practically anything else. Headquartered in San Diego, CA.

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network.

Lightweighting is a concept in the auto industry about building cars and trucks that are less heavy as a way to achieve better fuel efficiency and handling.

Lilt is an enterprise language translation platform that builds AI-powered software and sells translation services to companies around the world. Lilt provides interactive and adaptive machine-assisted translation tools. Translators can translate documents via a web-based CAT tool. Localization providers can integrate Lilt into their existing systems via a web API. The technology is based on Stanford research. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Lime Rock Partners is a lower middle market private equity firm investing in technology and healthcare businesses. Headquartered in Houston, TX. Domain: lrpartners.com

Limelight Networks is an American company that provides a content delivery network service, used for delivery of digital media content and software. Headquartered in Tempe, AZ.

A limit switch is an electromechanical device that consists of an actuator mechanically linked to a set of contacts. When an object comes into contact with the actuator, the device operates the contacts to make or break an electrical connection.

A corporate structure whereby the members of the company cannot be held personally liable for the company's debts of liabilities.

A limited liability partnership (LLP) is a partnership in which some or all partners (depending on the jurisdiction) have limited liabilities.

A limited partnership exists when two or more partners unite to jointly conduct a business in which one or more of the partners is liable only to the extent of the amount of money that partner has invested.

Lincoln Financial Group is a company offering a diverse range of financial services and solutions. With a strong focus on four core business areas — life insurance, annuities, retirement plan services, and group protection — our business is built around supporting, preserving, and enhancing our customer's lifestyles and providing better retirement outcomes. Headquartered in Radnor, PA. Founded in 1905. Domain: LincolnFinancial.com

Lincoln International LLC is a multinational independent investment bank and financial services company specializing in advisory services and financings on middle-market transactions. The firm works with publicly traded and privately owned companies, financial sponsors, and lenders. Headquartered in Chicago, IL.

A Fortune 250 American holding company, which operates multiple insurance and investment management businesses through subsidiary companies

Line Busting refers to tactics that help reduce wait times and checkout queues at retail stores, restaurants, service-based businesses, and other establishments.

Amount of credit extended to a borrower

Linear actuator is an actuator that creates motion in a straight line, in contrast to the circular motion of a conventional electric motor.

Linear regression is a kind of statistical analysis that attempts to show a relationship between two variables.

Linewize is a student safety platform. Features include content filtering, cyber safety via student safety monitoring and digital safety education, classroom management. It is a product of the company Family Zone Inc.. https://www.linewize.com/

Linguistic validation is the process of investigating the reliability, conceptual equivalence, and content validity of translations of patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures.

Business and employment social networking service

LinkedIn Job Search is a tool that allow user to quickly find job opportunities with location-based search and get automatic recommendations and notifications based on job searches.

LinkedIn Learning is an American website offering video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative, and business skills. It is a subsidiary of LinkedIn. All the courses on LinkedIn fall into 3 categories: Business, Creative, and Technology.

Marketing on LinkedIn helps users engage a community of professionals to drive actions that are relevant to their business. It allows advertisers to select specific characteristics to help them reach their ideal audience.

LinkedIn Pulse was a news aggregation app for Android, iOS and HTML5 browsers, originally released in 2010. The app, in its original incarnation, was deprecated in 2015 and integrated into LinkedIn.

A LinkedIn Recruiter offers access to contact intelligence for recruiters.

The LinkedIn Sales Navigator helps provide business contact information for sales teams.

LinkedIn Sponsored Content refers to native advertising on LinkedIn. Sponsored Content is a type of paid advertisement that allows companies to deliver Page updates beyond their current LinkedIn Page followers. Targeted LinkedIn Page updates are free and visible on the LinkedIn Page or in the feed of existing followers only.

LinkedIn Sponsored Messaging is an informational or promotional native ad that may be displayed for our partners as part of a marketing or hiring campaign. Only displayed on a member's LinkedIn Messaging web page or LinkedIn mobile app experience and isn't delivered to a personal or professional email inbox.

Sponsored Updates are an advertising solution developed by LinkedIn that allows brands to promote any post from a LinkedIn company page to specific people in their news feeds.

Annual conference for talent professionals

LinkedIn Talent Insights is a product of LinkedIn created to help its clients gain a competitive upper-hand on hiring trends and data.

LinkedIn Talent Solutions provides innovative recruiting tools to help users become more successful at talent acquisition. It is a hiring platform to quickly find, connect with, and manage candidates. It provides access to the world's largest professional network and important insights.

LinkSquares, Inc. is a company that offers an AI-powered contract management solution for contract lifecycle management (CLM). Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. https://linksquares.com/

Linode, LLC is an American privately-owned cloud hosting company that provides virtual private servers. It is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The creator of the Linux kernel.

An open-source operating system modelled on UNIX.

The Linux Foundation is a non-profit technology consortium founded in 2000 as a merger between Open-Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group to standardize Linux, support its growth, and promote its commercial adoption. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 2000. Domain: linuxfoundation.org

Linux hosting is the preferred type of hosting agent for those in the field of web design. Many developers rely on cPanel to manage the hosting platform. The cPanel feature is used to simplify operations on the Linux platform. With cPanel, you can easily handle all of your development tasks in a single place.

Linux Lite is a free easy to use linux based operating system that is suitable for people who are new to linux.

A Linux server is a variant of the Linux operating system that is designed to handle more intense storage and operational needs of larger organizations and their software.

Lion Studios by AppLovin helps mobile game developers of all sizes grow their businesses by publishing and marketing their games.

Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. is a multinational software and professional services company specializing in language translation, localization, software testing, e-learning translation, internationalization, interpretation, software development & testing, and content development services.

Lipidomics is the study of reaction pathways involved in lipid metabolism within biological systems.

Liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) is an analytical chemistry technique that combines the physical separation capabilities of liquid chromatography with the mass analysis capabilities of mass spectrometry.

Liquid Death is a canned-water company founded by Mike Cessario. Its water is sourced from the Austrian Alps, where it is also canned. Headquartered in Santa Monica, California. Founded in 2017. Operating as Liquid Death Mountain Water. Website https://www.liquiddeath.com

Liquid Web is a hosting company totally devoted to web and cloud professionals. They provide managed hosting products and services to over 45,000 customers in 150 countries. Headquartered in Lansing, Michigan.

A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals.

The ability to trade an asset, such as a stock or bond, at its current price.

Liquidity risk is a financial risk that for a certain period of time a given financial asset, security or commodity cannot be traded quickly enough in the market without impacting the market price.

Liquidity Services (NASDAQ: LQDT) employs innovative e-commerce marketplace solutions to manage, value, and sell inventory and equipment for business and government clients. They operate a network of leading e-commerce marketplaces that enable buyers and sellers to transact in an efficient, automated environment offering over 500 product categories. Their superior service, unmatched scale, and ability to deliver results enable them to forge trusted, long-term relationships with over 10,000 clients worldwide. Headquartered in Washington.

An online project management software company based in Seattle.

Liquified natural gas is natural gas that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the volume of natural gas in the gaseous state. LNG is odorless, colorless, non-toxic and non-corrosive.

ListenLoop is an advertising technology company.

Listing optimization is how users put keywords to work. Relevant keywords are how sellers get their product listings seen by potential customers using Amazon's search engine. Creating a highly optimized listing is how you take your keyword rankings and search results and convert them into buyers.

Listrak, LLC, headquartered in Lititz, PA, provides email marketing solutions to online retailers.

Litecoin is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency and open source software project released under the MIT/X11 license.

A San Francisco-based provider of software that allows businesses to connect with their customers on social media and digital channels

Lithium-Ion Battery Cell Production consists of three main process steps: electrode manufacturing, cell assembly, and cell finishing.

Litigation is the process of taking legal action. Pertaining to the actions between two opposing parties working in the interest of enforcing or defending a legal right.

Litigation funding, also known as legal financing and third-party litigation funding, enables a party to litigate or arbitrate without having to pay for it. A third party professional funder can pay some or all of the costs/expenses associated with a dispute in return for a share of the proceeds of the dispute if it is successful. If the litigation is not successful, the funder bears the costs it has agreed to fund.

Litmos by CallidusCloud provides a cloud-based learning management solution (LMS) that unifies virtual, classroom, mobile, social and eCommerce capabilities in a single, secure, and scalable platform that can meet any organization's training needs.

Litmus provides solutions to simplify worklows, create more effective emails, and get valuable insights to inform and improve results of their clients marketing channels. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Littelfuse, Inc is a multinational electronic manufacturing company based in Chicago, Illinois. The company primarily produces circuit protection products but also manufactures a variety of electronic switches and automotive sensors.

Littler Mendelson P.C. is a U.S.-based law firm that specializes in labor and employment litigation as well as global mobility and immigration issues. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 1942. Website https://www.littler.com/

Cattle that can be traded in mercantile and option exchanges.

Live cell imaging is the study of living cells using time-lapse microscopy.

A social IT application that provides a place to post and share content in a ServiceNow instance.

Live Scan Fingerprinting is inkless electronic fingerprinting. It allows for digital fingerprints to be electronically transmitted or transferred. The process is used to submit fingerprint information for criminal history background checks, which may be required as a condition of employment, licensing, certification, volunteer work, foreign adoptions, or VISA, immigration clearances. Live scan fingerprinting eliminates many of the problems associated with ink prints, such as smudging, smearing, and over or under inking.

Transmit or receive live video and audio coverage of an event over the Internet.

Live video encoding takes analog source content and converts it to a digital format, live.

LiveAction is an enterprise software company that simplifies the network for IT organizations to deliver continuous insight, service assurance, and precise control of their network infrastructure. LiveAction provides end-to-end visibility for network security and performance from a single source of truth. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. Founded in 2007. Operating as LiveAction, Inc.

LiveChat is an offline customer service software with live support, help desk software, and web analytics capabilities.

LiveOps is a leader in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), providing on-demand domestic home-based agents for customer service and sales to leading brands.

LivePerson is a conversational commerce solution that helps businesses of all sizes to increase conversions and reduce customer care costs with messaging.

An identity resolution provider offering data onboarding

LiveTiles Limited (LVT) is an intranet and digital workplace software company that hosts a Digital Employee Experience Platform that aims to help organizations improve communications, and foster inclusion, well-being, and performance. Products include LiveTitles Reach, LiveTiles Intranet, LiveTitles Directory. Headquartered in New York, New York. https://livetilesglobal.com/

A living lab is considered an innovation network based on the philosophy of open innovation where users become equivalent to other participants. A living lab, or living laboratory, is a research concept, which may be defined as a user-centered, iterative, open-innovation ecosystem, often operating in a territorial context, integrating concurrent research and innovation processes within a public-private-people partnership.

A written statement detailing a person's desires regarding their medical treatment in circumstances in which they a re no longer able to express informed consent, especially an advance directive.

LivingSocial is an online marketplace that allows its registered users to buy and share things to do in their city. Formerly headquartered in Washington, D.C., LivingSocial had roughly 70 million members around the world in 2013.

Livongo offers a whole person platform that empowers people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives, beginning with diabetes and now including hypertension, weight management, diabetes prevention, and behavioral health. Livongo pioneered the new category of Applied Health Signals to silence noisy healthcare. Their team of data scientists aggregate and interpret substantial amounts of health data and information to create actionable, personalized and timely health signals. The Livongo approach has demonstrated that it can deliver better clinical and financial outcomes while creating a different and better experience for people with chronic conditions. Headquartered in Calif

LLamasoft offers productized applications and innovative solutions to accelerate adoption of AI with deep expertise in machine learning, optimization, simulation and advanced analytics capabilities to improve decision making. LLamasoft technology helps business leaders design operational strategies to achieve profitabims, we create a true end-to-end view of a company’s global supply chain where analysis, scenario testing and decisions are conceived and executed across strategic, tactical and operational time horizons. Headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Lloyds Bank plc is a British retail and commercial bank with branches across England and Wales.

LLR Partners is a lower middle market private equity firm investing in technology and healthcare businesses. We collaborate with our portfolio companies to define high-impact growth initiatives, turn them into action and create long-term value. Founded in 1999 and with more than $5 billion raised across six funds, LLR is a flexible provider of equity capital for growth, recapitalization and buyouts. Headquartered in Pennsylvania.

An LNG carrier is a tank ship designed for transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG). As the LNG market grows rapidly, the fleet of LNG carriers continues to experience tremendous growth. These use pressurized tanks to carry their loads.

LNG, or Liquid Natural Gas, retrofitting is the installation of LNG powered engines on-board ships.

A load balancer is a device that acts as a reverse proxy and distributes network or application traffic across a number of. servers.

A load balancer is a device that acts as a reverse proxy and distributes network or application traffic across a number of servers. Load balancers are used to increase capacity and reliability of applications.

A load cell is a force transducer. It converts a force such as tension, compression, pressure, or torque into an electrical signal that can be measured and standardized.

The process of putting demand on a software system or computing device and measuring its response.

Heavy equipment vehicle designed to transport materials

LoadUp Technologies, LLC. Is a junk removal company that provides local pick-up and disposal services, assembly services, and labor services. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. goloadup.com

A loan agreement is a contract between a borrower and a lender which regulates the mutual promises made by each party.

Loan origination is the process by which a borrower applies for a new loan, and a lender processes that application.

Loan origination software automates the end-to-end (retail) loan portfolio cycle, typically electronically, getting rid of the need to depend on a paper workflow environment. Loan origination software simplifies and improves the application and approval for loans through the system by automating the whole loan process.

Loan payments refer to amounts required to be paid by a borrower in repayment of the loan from a lender.

A Loan workout (also called loan modification or mortgage modification) is a plan of how to restructure debt in the face of foreclosure. It can involve a variety of adjustments to the original loan agreement, such as spreading the payments over a longer period of time, writing off part of the loan balance, reducing the interest rate, and so forth. It is a new agreement between the borrower and lender that changes the loan.

Sums of money borrowed from a creditor, usually repaid with interest

Lobbying, persuasion, or interest representation is the act of attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of officials, most often by legislators or members of regulatory agencies. Coverage of the legal industry's lobbying interests and activities includes: highlights of the big law firms writing contracts for major U.S. companies; trends and analysis about the firms participating, lawyers and trade associations trying to shape the agenda.

A network that connects computers and other devices in a relatively small area, typically a single building or a group of buildings.

A local courier is a person or company that delivers items locally.

The administration of a particular town, county, or district, with representatives elected by those who live there.

A marketing term that refers to the application of different variables in a business' marketing mix dependent on localized specifications including the consumer, competition, and store characteristics.

Business relationships that are fostered to be beneficial to both entities.

The process of making something local in character or restricting it to a particular place.

Localization project management is the process of orchestrating localization campaigns?—translating large batches of content into other languages for use in locales across the world.

localsearch helps to make Swiss SMEs successful in the digital world. As a company with its roots in the printed telephone book, we are now the established partner for Swiss SMEs in all matters digital. localsearch's innovative solutions help businesses professionally present and establish your business and your products and services on the digital marketplace. In this way, your customers will find, view, book, buy and like what you have to offer. Headquartered in Queensland. business.localsearch.com.au

A mobile engagement platform that enables companies to improve mobile app acquisition, engagement, and retention

Locana, formerly known as Critigen, is a location and mapping technology company that provides geospatial solutions, from consulting to implementation. Services include GIS strategy and planning, system architecture, system integration, investment planning, geospatial analytics, and more. Headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado. locana.co

The ability to gain business insight from the location component of business data.

Location Data is defined as any data processed in an electronic communications network or by an electronic communications service indicating the geographical position of the terminal equipment of a user of a public electronic communications service, including data relating to the latitude, longitude or altitude of the terminal equipment, the direction of travel of the user, or the time the location information was recorded.

Defined as the use of mobile marketing to target mobile users within a certain geographic area.

Services offered through a mobile phone and take into account the device's geographical location.

Landmark US labor law case in the US Supreme Court, holding that limits to working time violated the Fourteenth Amendment.

Lockbox Processing is when businesses that receive frequent payments and documents by mail use lockbox services to reduce expenses, improve cash flow, and update their accounting systems quickly.

American global aerospace, defense, security and advanced technologies company with worldwide interests

Lockton Companies Inc. provides insurance, risk management and employee benefits solutions.

"Loco Translate" is the official Loco plugin for WordPress. It provides in-browser editing of WordPress translation files and integration with automatic translation services.

Locus Robotics designs and builds innovative autonomous mobile robots that work collaboratively alongside workers in the fast paced logistics and fulfillment industries. Workers can pick 2x-3x faster with near-100% accuracy and less labor, delivering higher productivity and a better workplace. The LocusEmpower(TM) system easily integrates into existing warehouse infrastructure without reconfiguring or disrupting workflows or infrastucture. The Locus system delivers unparalleled flexibility in moving inventory and orders through a fulfillment center using collaborative, efficient, and effective autonomous mobile robots. Headquartered in Wilmington, MA.

Loeb & Loeb LLP is a multiservice law firm with offices in the United States and Asia focusing on the entertainment industry, media, technology, financial services trusts and estates and real estate. Founded in 1909. Website http://www.loeb.com/

In computing, a logfile is a file that records either events that occur in an operating system or other software runs, or messages between different users of a communication software.

The collective processes and policies used to administer and facilitate the generation, transmission, analysis, storage, archiving and ultimate disposal of the large volumes of log data created within an information system.

Logentries automatically collects and centralizes all of your log data in any format into one secure location where you can search, aggregate, and visualize log data to get answers to your questions, in seconds. Logentries offers options for both agent and agentless collection of logs. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Logi Analytics, Inc. is a computer software company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, United States with offices in the UK and Sweden. It offers interactive data visualization products for business intelligence and business analytics.

electronic instrument that captures and displays multiple signals from digital system or digital circuit.

LogicGate believes in flexible, easy-to-use enterprise technology can change the trajectory of organizations and the lives of its employees. It is a computer software company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

LogicManager is a software development company that creates risk management tools. Headquartered in Boston, MA. Founded in 2005. Operating as LogicManager, Inc.

LogicMonitor provides SaaS-based data center monitoring of physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructures. Headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA. Founded in 2007. Operating as LogicMonitor, Inc.

Logility is a digital sustainable supply chain company. Logility helps companies seize new opportunities, sense and respond to changing market dynamics and more profitably manage their complex global businesses. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA. Founded in 1996. Operating as Logility, Inc.. https://www.logility.com/

LogiMAT, the International Trade Show for Intralogistics Solutions and Process Management, sets new standards as the biggest annual intralogistics exhibition in Europe. This is the leading international trade fair that provides a comprehensive market overview and competent knowledge-transfer.

LoginRadius Inc. is a cloud based SaaS Customer Identity Access Management platform based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was established in 2012.

Logistics 4.0 is a concept that involves planning, through the use of enabling technologies, of the storage flow of raw materials, semi-finished, and finished products in order to meet customer requirements. Logistics 4.0 has the objective of creating a transparent ecosystem, in which all the systems involved can expose relevant data.

A procurement supply chain person is directly responsible for the purchasing or procurement of any product or services. A logistics supply chain person is focused on the logistical cost and efficiencies within the supply chain of an organization,

Logistics network planning refers to the class of tools required to analyze the trade-offs among inventory quantities, number and location of warehouses, and transportation costs to most profitably support a desired level of customer service. LNP is a proven scientific method for analyzing the required cost and service levels that warehouses need to meet specified customer service objectives.

Logistics optimization, or supply chain optimization, is a process that aims to increase supply chain efficiency. Such processes include having means to track goods, reduce waste, ensure proper management of products, etc.

Logistics Service Providers are companies which specialise in providing logistics services as its core business. Some types of logistics service providers are capable of not just transporting goods, but also offer warehousing and packaging services. In other words, "handling" the goods.

Logistics software is a set of application suites that streamline and synchronize the complete logistics processes from origination to destination.

Logitech International S.A. is an American Swiss multinational manufacturer of computer peripherals and software, with headquarters in Switzerland and California. Domain: logitech.com

LogMeIn, Inc. is a provider of software as a service and cloud-based remote connectivity services for collaboration, IT management and customer engagement, founded in 2003 and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

LogMeIn (LOGM) is a provider of software as a service and cloud-based remote connectivity services for collaboration, IT management and customer engagement. The company's products give users and administrators access to remote computers.

A recognizable graphic design element, often including a name, symbol or trademark, representing an organization or product

LogPlot is an easy-to-use log plotting program with a flexible log layout and intuitive data editor. LogPlot software has been used by geoscientists since 1983 to display their geotechnical, environmental, geophysical, mud/gas, and mining data as a graphic boring log.

LogRhythm, Inc. is an American security intelligence company that unifies Security Information and Event Management, log management, network and endpoint monitoring and forensics, and security analytics.

Logstash is an open-source, server-side data processing pipeline that ingests data from a multitude of sources and simultaneously transforms it, and then sends it to your favorite “stash.”

Logz.io is an Israel-based company that provides log management and log analysis services. The platform combines ELK as a cloud service and machine learning to derive new insights from machine data.

Lokalise is a cloud-based localization and translation management system for agile teams. Headquartered in Dover, DE. Founded in 2017. Website https://lokalise.com.

Lola.com is a software as a service company based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is best known for developing corporate travel management and expense software for web browsers, the App Store and Google Play.

London based information about stock prices, indices, international markets and RNS news announcements.

Lone Star Controls is a full service control system company specializing in industrial automation. Headquartered in Cypress, TX.

Long International, Inc. is a construction claims, insurance claims, and project management consulting company in the oil & gas production, petroleum refining, petrochemical, chemical, pipeline, power, cogeneration, manufacturing, infrastructure, building, and industrial plant market sectors. Headquartered in Littleton, Colorado. https://www.long-intl.com/

Long lead time is the sum of the supply delay, which is how long the shipment takes to reach your inventory, plus the reordering delay.

Long short investment strategy seeks to take a long position in underpriced stocks while selling short overpriced shares. Long-short seeks to augment traditional long-only investing by taking advantage of profit opportunities from securities identified as both under-valued and over-valued.

A continuum of medical and social services designed to support the needs of people living with chronic health problems that affect their ability to perform everyday activities.

Is a 4G wireless broadband technology developed by the Third Generation Partnership Project, an industry trade group.

The Long-Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) system provides for the global identification and tracking of ships to enhance security of shipping and for the purposes of safety and marine environment protection.

Exercise aimed at formulating a long-term plan, to meet future needs estimated usually by extrapolation of present or known needs.

Lonza Group is a Swiss multinational chemicals and biotechnology company, headquartered in Basel, with major facilities in Europe, North America and South Asia. Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Looker is a data-discovery app that provides an intuitive approach to data exploration. It offers a web-based interface that business users can utilize to tap into the expertise of their data analytics team.

LookingGlass Cyber develops cybersecurity solutions that empower organizations to meet their missions with tailored, actionable threat intelligence and threat mitigation capabilities that move at machine speed. Headquartered in Reston, VA. Founded in 2009. Operating as LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, Inc. Website https://www.lookingglasscyber.com

Lookout is a cyber security company for the post-perimeter, cloud-first, mobile-first world.

Loominance is a software development company with a data analytics and visualization platform that helps businesses make sense of complex data sets and generate insights. Headquartered in San Jose, CA. Founded in 2017. Website loominance.com

Loop Return is revolutionizing the post-purchase experience. It has taken one of the most fragile commerce interactions - returns - and turned it into something consumers actually love, and that deepens its connection to brands and products. Headquartered in Columbus, OH. Domain: loopreturns.com

A loophole is an ambiguity or inadequacy in a system, such as a law or security, which can be used to circumvent or otherwise avoid the purpose, implied or explicitly stated, of the system.

Loox is a fully-featured product review app that enables small and large brands to automatically collect customer reviews with photos & videos and beautifully display happy customer content. Headquartered in Israel.

Loss Adjustment Expense (LAE) is the cost of investigating and adjusting losses. LAEs need not be allocated to a particular claim. If they are allocated to a particular claim, they are called "allocated loss adjustment expenses" (ALAE); otherwise, they are unallocated loss adjustment expenses (ULAE).

Loss control is a risk management technique that seeks to reduce the possibility that a loss will occur and reduce the severity of those that do occur. A loss control program should help policyholders reduce claims, and insurance companies reduce losses through safety and risk management information and services.

Method for reducing shrinkage

Lost wages are the money one would have earned from their employer from the time of the accident to the date of settlement or judgment. A person is able to recover the wages they would have earned had they not missed work while receiving medical treatment and recovering from their injuries.

LOT Network is a nonprofit organization that was formed to combat patent assertion entities, also known as patent trolls, by cross-licensing patents that fall into the hands of PAEs.

The leading independent data management platform (DMP) used by companies around the world to make audience data meaningful and actionable

Messaging and groupware software from INM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, As/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling.

Louis Padnos Iron & Metal Company is a company that provides scrap management solutions and recycling services for metals, plastics, paper, electronics. Headquartered in Holland, Michigan. padnos.com

Love Media is an independent media & marketing agency, providing consultation, media buying and media planning services. Headquartered in Sydney, NSW. Founded in 2019. Website http://www.lovemediagroup.com.au

A low-carbon economy or decarbonised economy is an economy based on low-carbon power sources that therefore has a minimal output of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, specifically carbon dioxide.

California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Program requires a reduction in the carbon intensity of transportation fuels that are sold, supplied, or offered for sale in the state through 2030. The California Air Resources Board regulations require transportation fuel producers and importers to meet specified average carbon intensity requirements for fuel.

Low earth orbits (LEO) are satellite systems used in telecommunication, which orbit between 400 and 1,000 miles above the earth's surface.

A matching grant program that provides federal funds to organizations so they in turn can provide LITC services to taxpayers who are low income or who speak English as a second language.

Refers to the network connections used by financial institutions to connect to stock exchanges and Electronic communication networks (ECNs) to execute financial transactions.

A low-power wide-area network, or LPWAN, is a type of wireless telecommunication wide area network designed to allow long-range communications at a low bit rate among things, such as sensors operated on a battery.

Heavy fuel oils are referred to as low sulfur fuel oil (LSFO) if their sulfur content is below 1%. Usually these are marine fuel types IFO 180 or IFO 380, which have been desulfurized. Until the end of 2014, ships could still travel through Emission Control Areas (ECAs) with this type of marine fuel.

Low sulphur refers to fuel that contains or is made from sources containing relatively little sulphur. The use of low-sulphur coal and filters can remove some of the crud.

Low-code is a way to design and develop software fast and with minimal hand-coding. It enables skilled people to deliver value more quickly and more reliably.

Lowenstein Sandler LLP is an American law firm specializing in investment funds, private equity, venture capital, life sciences, technology & media, manufacturing & industrial, consumer & retail, and private client services. Headquartered in New York, NY. Founded in 1961. Website http://www.lowenstein.com/

Loyal Agency is an Australian advertising services company. Headquartered in Darlinghurst, New South Wales. Founded in 2017. Website https://www.loyalagency.com.au/

Loyale is reinventing the way healthcare providers engage with their patients financially. With Loyale’s end-to-end suite of solutions, providers of all types and configurations are elevating their patients’ financial experiences to a level that compares with their clinical experiences. With Loyale, providers build durable, trusting relationships with patients. They also increase revenues, reduce staff time & stress, and minimize bad debt. Headquartered in Lafayette, CA.

Customer Loyalty Analytics seek to answer key questions about customer behavior that may reveal how loyal they are to a brand. The data may come from different sources, but the driving goal is to learn why customers are loyal.

Loyalty program liability is the eventual cost to your company of the redemption of all outstanding loyalty points.

The development and management of loyalty programs.

Loyalty Marketing is a marketing approach focused on growing and retaining existing customers through incentives. It is based on strategic management, in which a company focuses on growing and retaining existing customers.

Loyalty point fraud, or more generally loyalty reward schemes, are regular feature of the eCommerce, travel and leisure landscape, with points accumulated based on repeated custom. Loyalty fraud happens when customers or fraudsters exploit loyalty programs for personal gain.

Points programs are among the most popular types of customer loyalty programs. They're useful because points are easy to earn and easy to redeem. Customers can redeem points for credit toward their next purchase, discounted services, or giveaways.

A customer loyalty program is a rewards program offered by a company to customers who frequently make purchases. A loyalty program may give a customer free merchandise, rewards, coupons, or even advance released products.

A loyalty punch card is a token that lets a customer earn free merchandise or discounts after a certain number of purchases

LPK is a brand design, CX and innovation agency in Cincinnati, London and Geneva. It builds enduring brands that thrive in emergent culture.

LSC Communications (NYSE: LKSD) is a global leader in print and digital media solutions. Its traditional and digital print-related services and office products serve the needs of publishers, brands, retailers and merchandisers around the world. With advanced technology and a consultative approach, its supply chain solutions meet the needs of each business by getting their content into the right hands as efficiently as possible. Headquartered in Chicago, IL. Domain: lcscom.com

LTE CAT M1 – officially known as CAT M1– is a low-power wide-area (LPWA) cellular technology that specializes in transferring low to medium amounts of data (200 – 400 kbps) across a wide geographical range.

LTi Technology Solutions is a software development company that provides a global, customer-centric, cloud-based, full lifecycle leasing, loan, asset-based lending and finance platform. Solutions include an ecosystem of solutions and LTi cloud hosted solutions. Headquartered in Douglas County, Nebraska. https://www.ltisolutions.com/

LTIMindtree Limited (NSE:LTIM), or simply LTIMindtree, is an Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company. LTIMindtree is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company that enables enterprises across industries to reimagine business models, accelerate innovation, and maximize growth by harnessing digital technologies. Headquartered in Mumbai, MH. Founded in 1996. LTIMindtree is a subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro. Website ltimindtree.com

Lubricants are oils used for machinery in the paper and mill, metal forming, foundry, mining, quarrying, energy, plastics, food and beverages, and machining industries.

LucaNet is a software development company that creates professional FPM software that handles the complete process of preparing consolidated financial statements, financial planning, & business reporting. Founded in 1999. Operating as LucaNet AG. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Website https://www.lucanet.de/

Lucas James Talent Partners was founded to create an alternative solution to the conventional contingent recruiting model. It only hires the most qualified talent acquisition professionals to represent ourselves and its clients, offering industry leading sourcing & selection practices and technology – all in a unique, variable model to create the most valuable possible solution for client partners. Headquartered in Downers Grove, IL. Domain: lucasjamestalent.com

Lucas Systems, Inc. develops and delivers voice-directed warehouse applications for users at warehouses and distribution centers in the United States, Europe, the Pacific Rim, and internationally.

Lucent Technologies, Inc., was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in the United States.

Lufthansa Technik AG ('Lufthansa Engineering', often referred to simply as “LHT”) provides maintenance, completions, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services for aircraft, and maintenance, repair, and MRO services for engines and components.

Luma Health makes it easier to see and connect with doctors. Its vision aligns around letting systems deliver high-quality healthare, lower the burden on staff, and provide the modern, mobile-first experience patients deserve. Headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Lumberg Automation products deliver intelligent wiring solutions such as electronic field bus components and connector and distribution box systems for all applications in industrial automation technology and complete wiring concepts for mechanical engineering and production systems for a wide range of industries. Lumberg Automation is a Belden brand.

Lumen is an enterprise technology platform that enables companies to capitalize on emerging applications that power the 4th Industrial Revolution. Data center security trusted by government agencies in addition to Financial, Insurance, Healthcare and Retail businesses.

Lumen Technologies, Inc. is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, that offers communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice, and managed services. The company is a member of the S&P 500 index and the Fortune 500. Domain: lumen.com

Lumenis is a manufacturer of minimally-invasive clinical devices intended for surgical, ophthalmology, and aesthetic markets. The company offers equipment for urology, eye care, hair removal, scars, throat cancer and other wide range of medical treatments. Headquartered in Yokne'am Ilit, Tsafon. Founded in 1966. Website https://lumenis.com

Lument delivers a comprehensive set of capital solutions customized for investors in multifamily, affordable housing, and seniors housing real estate. Parent Organization is Orix USA.

Lumesse provides recruitment, staffing and talent acquisition solutions.

Lumin Digital is a PSCU-majority-owned fintech company specializing in digital banking solutions like a cloud-native, digital banking platform for financial institutions. Headquartered in San Ramon, CA. Founded in 2016. Website https://lumindigital.com

Luminar Technologies Inc. is an American technology company that develops vision-based lidar and machine perception technologies, primarily for self-driving cars. Headquartered in Orlando, FL. Domain: luminartech.com

Lumine Group is a leading global acquirer of communications & media software businesses. Headquartered in Toronto. Domain: luminegroup.com

Luminus is a vertically integrated fast-growing high-tech company that engages in high power Light-Emitting-Diode (LED) solid-state lighting for a variety of application areas such as industrial UV, IR, medicals, projection displays, high-end illumination lighting, horticulture lighting and automotive lighting. Luminus is at the forefront of the undergoing solid-state lighting revolution that will change the lighting technology in almost every aspect of everyday work and life. Headquartered in Austin, Texas.

A lump-sum payment is an amount paid all at once, as opposed to an amount that is divvied up and paid in installments.

Lusha Systems Inc. is a company that provides a B2B database. The company aims to help business customers validate, verify, and find business contact information of relevant contacts. Lusha offers solutions for sales representatives, recruitment managers, and marketers. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. https://www.lusha.com/

Lutz is a business solutions firm for people seeking a partner to help energize and heighten financial and organizational success. Born and raised in Nebraska, its experienced team simplifies complexities and provides accounting, wealth management, recruiting, M&A and technology services. It embraces businesses as their own to spark the right solutions and help them thrive.

Luxaviation is one of the largest private aviation operators with a fleet of 260 aircraft and over 1,700 employees worldwide. Our critical mass enables us to cater to your individual needs at a very personal level - any time, any place. Headquartered in Luxembourg.

Luxer One Package Lockers is the leader in package management & locker solutions for apartments, retailers, offices and universities. Headquartered in Sacramento, California.

Luxury homes are determined by price, location, square footage, and other subjective features.

Lyft is a transportation network (ride share) company based in San Francisco.

Olaparib, sold under the brand name Lynparza, is a medication for the maintenance treatment of BRCA-mutated advanced ovarian cancer in adults. It is a PARP inhibitor, inhibiting poly ADP ribose polymerase, an enzyme involved in DNA repair.

Lyons Consulting Group, LLC is a digital advertising and IT consulting company. The company provides consulting, digital agency, system integration, technology services, and other managed services.

Lyra is an Online payment & Pos service expert. It offers a highly secure environment for transactions anywhere in the world. Headquartered in France.

Lyra Health is a provider of mental health benefits that developed a digital health platform designed to transform mental health care through technology with the human touch. The company's platform connects members to a curated network of therapists and coaches through live video therapy, coaching, and digital self-care tools. Headquartered in Burlingame, California. Founded in 2015. Website https://www.lyrahealth.com

Lytics, based in Portland, OR, helps companies personalize engagement with customers through the industry’s most advanced Customer Data Platform (CDP).

Lytx is a San Diego, California based technology company that designs, manufactures, and sells video telematics products used by commercial and public-sector fleets to help improve driver safety and business productivity.