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Casual

Irregular, occasional, or accidental; happening without being planned or foreseen.

The term is used to describe an event that is unanticipated or unusual. A casual sale is one that is not customary, or done in the usual course of business—such as a jeweler occasionally selling vacuum cleaners.

Casual employment is irregular, periodic, or seasonal employment, such as someone selling ice cream only during the summer. Workers' Compensation laws in many states do not apply to casual employment.

casual

adj. defining something that happens by chance, without being foreseen, or informally. This includes "casual" labor or employment, which is someone hired to do a task just because he/she was available at the moment. "Casual laborer" carries the implication that the laborer does not belong to a union and that the employer and the laborer will not pay appropriate taxes on the wages paid.

casual

adjective aimless, apathetic, blase, causeless, cursory, designless, desultory, fortuitous, haphazard, inattentive, incidental, indeterminate, indifferent, informal, insouciant, irregular, nonchalant, occasional, orderless, perfunctory, pococurante, purposeless, thoughtless, unarranged, uncertain, unconcerned, undetermined, undirected, unexacting, unfixed, unmethodical, unmeticulous, unmindful, unordered, unprecise, unpunctilious, unstudied, unsystematic, unweighed
Associated concepts: casual act, casual employment, casual transaction

CASUAL. What happens fortuitously what is accidental as, the casual revenue's of the government, are those which are contingent or uncertain.

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cylindrica, since it is a native or adventive in most European countries, and grows near or within wheat fields.

Spontaneous hybridization between bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and its wild relatives in Europe

Oversowing and fertilising reduced the amount of bare ground and transformed the vegetation to a species composition dominated by the introduced adventives Anthoxanthum odoratum and Agrostis capillaris.

Effect of contrasting farm management on vegetation and biochemical, chemical, and biological condition of moist steepland soils of the South Island high country, New Zealand

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Adventive Promotes Chris Boucher to President & CEO

We used the BioClim climatic data from the WorldClim database to develop the model of adventive species potential habitats [10, 11].

Regional databases within invasive plant species spread monitoring

Native species Adventive species summary summary Number % of Total Number % of Total # of species 233 74.

The vascular flora and vegetational communities of Mississinewa Woods in Randolph County, Indiana

Scudder and Foottit (2006) listed four adventive tingid species in Canada.

Monosteira unicostata (Mulsant & Rey) (Hemiptera: Tingidae) established in North America, with a key to the genera of Tingidae in Canada

Changes in abundance of native and adventive Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) in alfalfa fields, in northern New Jersey (1993-2004) and Delaware.

Reproductive ecology of Trillium recurvatum (trilliaceae) in Wisconsin

Although only five adventive taxa occurred within sampling quadrats (Table 1), the high importance values of three of these taxa are indicative of the more degraded condition of this remnant prairie and reflect a land use history which likely included cattle grazing.

Vascular flora of Bonnie's Prairie Nature Preserve, Iroquois County, Illinois

Bertrand-Desbrunais A, Fabre J, Engelmann F, Dereuddre J, Charrier A (1988) Reprise de l'embryogenese adventive a partir d'embryons somatiques de cafeier (Coffea arabica L.

Primary and secondary somatic embryogenesis in leaf sections and cell suspensions of Coffea arabica cv. Catimor

Accessions of jointed goatgrass were selected to represent the ecogeographic diversity in its native and adventive ranges in Europe and Asia, the USA, and Oregon (Table 1; Fig.

Jointed goatgrass (Aegilops cylindrica Host) x wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) hybrids: hybridization dynamics in Oregon wheat fields. (Crop Breeding, Genetics & Cytology)

Given more than two centuries of human impact in the Glen (Leuba 1972), it is not surprising that Anliot (1973) found a number of herbaceous and woody exotics naturalized or adventive in the Glen and adjacent John Bryan State Park.

Does topography affect the colonization of Lonicera maackii and Ligustrum vulgare in a forested Glen in Southwestern Ohio? (1)

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