Unit

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1. Organisations - operations - financial reporting.

A separately identifiable part of an organisation.

For example, a cash-generating unit or a strategic business unit in a commercial organisation.


2. Organisations - specialisms.

A specialist group within a larger organisation.

For example, the Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit of the UK police.


3. Manufacturing - production.

A single manufactured item.

Or a comparable single item of services.

For example, in the related cost per unit.


4. Measurement - metrics - standards.

A standardised amount - or other measure - of something, used to enable comparisons.

For example, the Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit in shipping.

Or the World currency unit.


5. Unit trusts.

The smallest measure of investment in a unit trust.

Comparable with a single share in other companies.


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