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Competition Tribunal
The Competition Tribunal is Canada's specialist adjudicative tribunal for civil competition matters, created in 1986 under the Competition Tribunal Act to hear merger, abuse of dominance, and deceptive marketing cases.
Competitive advantage
Competitive advantage, also known as sustainable competitive advantage or competitive edge, is a firm's ability to earn persistently higher profits than rivals, a concept given canonical form by Michael Porter in 1985.
Competitor analysis
Competitor analysis is a structured assessment of the firms competing for the same customers, covering their products, pricing, market share, strengths, weaknesses, and likely future actions.
Compiègne
Compiègne, Oise town 80 km north of Paris, site of the 1918 and 1940 armistice signings in its forest, the Royallieu internment and deportation camp, and the royal château begun in 1751 by Ange-Jacques Gabriel.
Compiègne Wagon
Compiègne Wagon (Wagon de Compiègne, car 2419D): Wagons-Lits dining car where the 1918 and 1940 armistices were signed; original destroyed 1945 in Thuringia, replaced by sister car 2439D at the Clairière de l'Armistice museum.
Compilation of History
The Compilation of History (Havakumn patmutsyun) is a universal history in Classical Armenian written by Vardan Areveltsi around 1267, covering events from the Tower of Babel to 1267.
Compilation of the Liao, Jin, and Song Histories (修辽金宋三史)
The Compilation of the Liao, Jin, and Song Histories (修辽金宋三史) was the Yuan dynasty's official project to compile the three dynasties' histories, opened in 1343.
Complaint
Complaint: the initiating pleading in a civil action, also called a declaration at common law; states jurisdiction, cause of action, and relief sought under FRCP 8, subject to Twombly-Iqbal plausibility and Rule 11.
Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir
Akkadian cuneiform clay tablet from Ur, c. 1750 BC, in which Nanni complains to copper merchant Ea-nasir about wrong-grade copper; British Museum ME 131236, oldest known customer complaint and internet meme.
Complaints of Khakheperraseneb
The Complaints of Khakheperraseneb, also spelled Khakheperreseneb, is a Middle Kingdom Egyptian lament in which a priest of Heliopolis addresses his own heart about a country overwhelmed by chaos.
Complement Therapeutics
Complement Therapeutics GmbH is a clinical-stage biotechnology company, founded in 2021 as a University of Manchester spinout, developing CTx001, a gene therapy for geographic atrophy secondary to age-related macular degeneration.
Complementarianism
Complementarianism is a Christian theological view that men and women are equal in worth but have distinct, God-ordained roles, with male headship in home and church. Also called the hierarchical position; opposed to Christian egalitarianism; formalized by CBMW's 1988 Danvers Statement.
Complementary good
A complementary good, or complement good, is a good whose demand rises when the price of another good falls, because the two are consumed together, like coffee and sugar.
Complete Collection of Illustrations and Writings from the Earliest to Current Times
The Complete Collection of Illustrations and Writings from the Earliest to Current Times (古今图书集成) is a vast Qing dynasty classified encyclopedia of 10,000 juan, compiled chiefly by Chen Menglei.
Complete Genomics
Complete Genomics is an American DNA-sequencing company founded in 2005, known for human whole-genome sequencing using DNA nanoball arrays; China's BGI acquired it in 2013, and a 2026 agreement would sell it to Swiss Rockets AG.
Complete Treatise on Agricultural Administration (Nongzheng Quanshu)
The Complete Treatise on Agricultural Administration (农政全书, Nongzheng Quanshu) is a sixty-juan agricultural encyclopedia compiled by the late Ming scholar Xu Guangqi, framing farming through land, water control, and famine relief.
Completed-contract method
The completed-contract method (CCM) is an accounting method for long-term contracts that recognizes no revenue or profit until the contract is finished, deferring tax; it is the conservative counterpart to the percentage-of-completion method.
Completion of the Red Pyramid
The completion of the Red Pyramid marks the finish, late in the reign of King Sneferu, of the first smooth-sided true pyramid, built at Dahshur near Cairo around 2589 BC.
Completion of the Second Temple
The completion of the Second Temple, or dedication of the Second Temple, was the finishing of the rebuilt Jerusalem temple in 516/515 BC under Darius I.
Compliance audit
A compliance audit is a systematic, independent examination of whether an organization's activities, records, and practices conform to applicable laws, regulations, contracts, and internal policies, producing a documented conclusion.
Compline
Compline (Completorium) is the final bedtime office in the Western liturgy, named for completing the day's Hours and traditionally associated with St. Benedict's Rule of the early sixth century.
Componential analysis
Componential analysis, also known as lexical decomposition, is a linguistic method that breaks word meanings into minimal semantic features, such as woman as [+FEMALE, +ADULT, +HUMAN].
Composición de tierras
Composición de tierras was a Castilian legal figure letting occupants of land in Spanish America legalize possession by paying the royal treasury, instituted by Felipe II in 1591.
Composition of the Torah
The composition of the Torah is the scholarly question of how the five books of Moses were written and combined, traditionally attributed to Moses but seen by most scholars as a composite text.
Compound (linguistics)
Compound (linguistics): a word formed by combining two or more lexical elements. Key division: endocentric compounds with an internal head (darkroom) versus exocentric compounds without one (redhead, scarecrow); English compounds are right-headed.
Compound annual growth rate
Compound annual growth rate, or CAGR, is the constant yearly rate that would turn a beginning value into an ending value over a period, assuming reinvested growth.
Compound interest
Compound interest is interest in which earned interest is added to the principal and earns interest itself, making it the most widely used form of interest in business.
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), also called TPP 11, is a free trade agreement signed by 11 countries in Santiago, Chile, in 2018.
Comprehensive Discussions in the White Tiger Hall
Comprehensive Discussions in the White Tiger Hall (白虎通义), also called Baihu tong, is a Han dynasty work recording the conclusions of a scholarly conference convened by Emperor Zhang in 79.
Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is the Canada-European Union free trade agreement, eliminating 98% of tariffs, opening public procurement, and applied provisionally since 2017.