a woman employed by a bar to act as a companion to men customers...
that layer of soil in a well developed soil lying immediately below the A horizon and which contains deposits of organic matter leached from surface soils...
b loan or b paper FICO scores from 620 - 659. Factors include two 30 day late mortgage payments and two to three 30 day late installment loan payments in the last 12 months. No delinquencies over 60 days are allowed. Should be two to four years since a bankruptcy. Also referred to as Sub-Prime. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
an exceedingly short lived meson...
B reorganization see reorganization ...
'B' List. 'B' List is prepared by the Liquidator of a company on being wound up which includes the names of shareholders who are ceased to be, but they had been the shareholder during preceding twelve months and they are secondarily liable to contribute. See CONTRIBUTORY.B List, means the list of past members who have ceased to be members within a year of the beginning of the winding up, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 8(1), Para 1720, p. 1253....
b.f.o.q. Short for the phrase "bona fide occupational qualification," in the employment discrimination context a B.F.O.Q. may absolve an employer from liability for discrimination when there is a legitimate reason to require, for example, that all of the employees working a particular job be of the same sex or age. The successful use of a B.F.O.Q. defense by an employer is rare in discrimination cases. ...
By or for the cause that on this account that for the reason that...
The past participle of Be In old authors it is also the pr tense plural of Be See 1st Bee...
before 1 : in the presence of [then personally appeared me] 2 : to be judged or acted on by [a case the court] [a bill coming up Congress] ...