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Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) / accounting | | Portuguese term or phrase: defasar | Context:
Adicionalmente, como os efeitos práticos da adoção pelas companhias de padrões de governança sobre a rentabilidade da companhia não são imediatos, optou-se por defasar em um ano as variáveis dependentes – o que reduziu a base em um ano.
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This is a statistical term.
OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms - Time lag Definition
May 2002 – The difference in time by which one observation lags behind or is later than another.
...the dependent variables were lagged by a year..., or
...it was decided to lag the dependent variables by a year...
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Explanation:
defasar:
transitivo direto e pronominal
2 Derivação: sentido figurado.
fazer ficar ou ficar para trás; atrasar, descompassar
Ex.: <o mau tempo defasou a conclusão da rodovia> <a moda clássica nunca se defasa>
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|  MLeiria
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Explanation:
close the gap
to offset in a year ......
Example sentence(s):- : something that serves to counterbalance or to compensate for something else; especially : either of two balancing ledger items
Reference: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/offset
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