(business) A take-or-pay contract; a take-or-pay provision in a contract. / (business) A contractual obligation either to take delivery of contracted goods or services or to make a specified payment.

(idiomatic) To either improve one's behavior or else be required to leave; to either improve one's performance in an activity or else withdraw from that activity completely.

To be a crucial factor in determining the success of something.

(uncountable) The lending of goods to a retailer on condition that the latter may return any he has not sold. / (countable) A sale (to a retailer) under this mechanism.

(idiomatic) used to indicate a paraphrase or the chance of an error in the details of reported speech.

(idiomatic) This may be surprising, but it's true.

(humorous) Indicates the speaker has noticed an erection underneath the interlocutor's clothes.

plural of nook or cranny

(idiomatic) Or something like that. Used to indicate the possibility that previously mentioned word may not be exactly correct in its applicability.

(idiomatic) A part of a place, especially small or remote.