set-aside

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set-a·side

(sĕt′ə-sīd′)

1. Something, such as land or a certain percentage of profits, that is set aside for a specific purpose.

2. A program requiring that a percentage of government procurement contracts be reserved for disadvantaged businesses.

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Adj.

set-aside - reserved in advance

booked, engaged

reserved - set aside for the use of a particular person or party

Translations

set-aside

[ˈsetəsaɪd] N (Agr) → retirada f de tierras, abandono m de tierras
set-aside land → tierra f en barbecho

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Canada's National Energy Board (NEB) has made a decision on NEB-regulated pipeline companies' set-aside and collection mechanism applications that will require operators to pay into a fund that will pay for pipeline abandonment.

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Solicitation number W9126GSAAO, covering work primarily for the San Antonio area office, is an 8(a) set-aside.

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FARMERS are coming under fire from Natural England, which says the ideas put forward to replace compulsory set-aside are "extremely disappointing".

Farmers under fire over set-aside ideas

CNG argued that its income did not exceed the set-aside amount as defined by IRC [section] 512(a)(3)(E).

VEBA's excess set-aside is UBI

The vast majority of member states will agree to abolish set-aside as proposed in the Common Agricultural Policy health check' proposals, concluded the outgoing Slovenian Presidency of the EU Council at a 1 July meeting of the Special Committee for Agriculture.

AGRICULTURE : MEMBER STATES READY TO ABOLISH OBLIGATORY SET-ASIDE

ENDANGERED bird species like the skylark could face new threats if large areas of set-aside land are ploughed up for crops this winter.

Birds threatened by the end of set-aside policy

RARE birds such as the stone-curlew face a bleak future unless the government replaces set-aside land with schemes that will protect wildlife, the RSPB warned this week.

RSPB calls for fallow land growth after set-aside scrapping; FARM & COUNTRY

The Medicare set-aside program, sitting astride the workers' comp and federal benefit systems, has been hard for me to understand.

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Set-Aside Alert is now the only comprehensive newsletter dedicated to small businesses regarding their trying to sell to the federal government.

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The VETS GWAC is a ten-year set-aside contract, managed by the General Services Administration (GSA), designed to strengthen federal information technology (IT) contracting opportunities for small SDVOBs, a group that, to date, has experienced a relative deficit of federal business.