direct personnel expense
Salaries and wages of principals and employees engaged on a project, assignment, or task, including mandatory and customary benefits.
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Directoire style
A transitional classicist style preceding the Empire style, named after the Directoire rule in France (1795 1799).
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direct-plunger elevator
A hydraulic elevator which has a piston (plunger) directly attached to the elevator car frame.
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direct luminaire
A luminaire which emits 90% to 100% of its total output below a horizontal plane through it.
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direct lighting
Lighting in which luminaires distribute 90% to 100% of the emitted light in the direction of the surface to be
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direct leveling
The determination of differences of elevation by a continuous series of short horizontal lines; the vertical distances from these lines
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directional lighting
Lighting, predominantly from a preferred direction, which provides illumination on the work plane or on an object.