pollution credit
originally US
noun
An allowance granted by a government permitting a company to release no more than a given amount of pollution into the atmosphere in one year, companies which exceed this being fined, and those which do not being allowed to bank any excess credit or sell it to other companies; usually in plural.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in Chemical Week.
- management board
- management buy-in
- management buyout
- management by exception
- management by objectives
- management committee
- management company
- management consultancy
- management consultant
- managementese
- management fee
- management information system
- management-speak
- management studies
- management style
- management trainee
- manager
- manageress
- managerial
- managerialism
- managerialist
- managerially
- managership
- manage someone's expectations
- managing