(law) The country in which a person or thing is deemed to have originated for the purposes of laws and regulations. / (international trade) The country where shipped goods are produced.

prior to the expected time; early.

Alternative form of take a leaf out of someone's book

(Internet) A type of network computer attack that attempts to render a particular service (e.g. web site) unavailable to its audience.

A medium of exchange.

An intermediary used in trade to avoid the inconveniences of a pure barter system, such as money.

Alternative form of bill of materials

There are many more potential opportunities available.

(software architecture) Abstract principle describing an aspect of some software architecture designs in which the flow of control of a system is inverted in comparison to the traditional architecture, getting the flow of control from a generic code part.

(sequence, idiomatic) Firstly; before anything else.