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The company's revenue for the quarter was also higher than expected, with a reported $786.4 million, versus the consensus of $784.15 million.

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  1. noun One of four equal parts.
  2. noun A coin equal to one fourth of the dollar of the United States and Canada.
  3. noun One fourth of an hour; 15 minutes.
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  • And our overall charge-off rate for the quarter was about 1\% up modestly from the third quarter and again a fraction of what's going on in the rest of the industry. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • Diluted earnings per share for the quarter were at $0.30, a 15. 4\% increase from the corresponding prior year period, yet off $0.02 from the linked quarter. —  Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • As described in my comments earlier, our non-interest revenue performance for the quarter was affected by the nearly $25.0 million in non-cash pre-tax charges associated with the decline in value of the mortgage servicing asset for the quarter and the write-down of other than temporary impairment of our pooled trust preferred securities. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • NBCU revenue for the quarter was also down to $4.4 billion, while full-year revenue rose
  • The impact for the quarter is an estimated $0.04 per share and for the year $0.03 per share. —  Retail Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
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  1. Middle English, from Old French quartier, from Latin quārtārius, from quārtus, fourth; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English quarter, quartere, dial. wharter, quarter (= Dutch kwartier = German quartier = Swedish quarter = Danish kvarteer, quarter), from Old French quartier, quarter, cartier, a fourth part, quarter, as of mutton, etc., = Spanish cuartel = Portuguese quartel = Italian quartiero, quartiere, quarter, from Latin quartarius, a fourth part of any measure, especially of a sextarius, a quarter, quartern, Middle Latin quartarius, also neuter quartarium, also (after Roman) quarterius, quarterium, a quarter, etc., from Latin quartus, fourth: see quart. Cf. quarter.
  2. from quarter, n. In def. II., 5, cf. French cartayer, drive so that one of the two chief ruts shall be between the wheels (thus dividing the road into four sections), from quart, fourth: see quart.
  3. = German quartier = Swedish quarter = Danish kvarteer, quarter; from French quartier, “quarter, or fair war, where souldiers are taken prisoners and ransomed at a certain rate” (Cotgrave) (= Spanish cuartel = Portuguese quartel = Italian quartiere, quarter), in the phrases donner quartier, or faire quartier, give quarter, demander quartier, beg quarter, supposed to have referred orig. to the sending of the vanquished to an assigned ‘quarter’ or place, there to be detained until his liberation, ransom, or slavery should be decided: see quarter. The explanation from an alleged “custom of the Dutch and Spaniards, who accepted as the ransom of an officer or soldier a quarter of his pay for a certain period” (Imp. Dict.) presents obvious difficulties.
 

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