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1. Stretching
   Is the increase of the held duration for assets or liabilities. It can be intentional or the result of slowdowns in prepayments, events, or exercised options.
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2. stretching
   [n] - act of expanding by lengthening or widening
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3. Stretching
   Any therapeutic maneuver designed to elongate shortened soft tissue structures and thereby increase flexibility.
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4. stretching
   forming a three-dimensional component from a flat sheet manually by the use of a hammer Category: Iron and steel industries • the two-dimensional shaping of a sheet metal workpiece by stretching one of its sides by means of hammer blows or by notching with a wedge-shaped tool Category...
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5. Stretching
   Stretch'ing adjective & noun from Stretch , v. Stretching course (Masonry) , a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher , 2. Britton.
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6. stretching
   (strech´ing) increasing something in one of its dimensions; extending. See exercise.
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7. Stretching
   • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stretch • a. & n. from Stretch, v.
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8. stretching
   (from the article `fibre, man-made`) The spinning processes described above produce some orientation of the long polymers that form spun filaments. Orientation is completed by ...
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9. stretching
   
   • act of expanding by lengthening or widening
   • exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
   • occupy a large, elongated area
   • extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
   • lie down comfortably
   • pull in opposite directions
   • extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
   • corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often...
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   • Stretching
     Movements designed to increase a muscle's flexibility; best method is still being debated but it appears that consistently stretching is the key to increasing flexibility
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   • Stretching
     Is the increase of the held duration for assets or liabilities. It can be intentional or the result of slowdowns in prepayments, events, or exercised options.
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   • Stretching
     `Stretching` is a form of physical exercise in which a specific date=May 2011-->, often by abduction (kinesiology)|abduction from the torso, in order to improve the muscle`s felt elasticity and reaffirm comfortable muscle tone. The result is a feeling of increased muscle control, flexibility and ran...
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   • Stretching
     (body piercing) woman with stretched earlobes `Stretching`, in the context of body piercing, is the deliberate expansion of a healed fistula for the purpose of wearing body piercing jewelry. accessdate=14 July 2011-->--> with Nose piercing#Nasal septum piercing|nasal septum piercings, tongue ...
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   • Stretching
     (disambiguation) `Stretching` is a form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle is deliberately elongated to its fullest length. `Stretching` may also refer to: See also:
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