(law) A provision within a business agreement or employment contract which stipulates that the contracting party must abstain from competitive practices not in the interests of an identified firm, such as starting a competing business or accepting a job with a competitor, and often extending for a period of time after the termination of the original employment or other business relationship.

(grammar) A minimal predicate structure that possesses arguments and predicates but no tense: small clauses usually occur within the context of full clauses and may act as the direct object of the verb.

(logic) A Horn clause with exactly one positive literal.

(logic) A clause (disjunction of literals) with at most one positive literal.

A clause or section, especially in a law, granting exceptions for people or organisations who were affected by previous conditions.

(grammar) A subordinate clause.

(grammar) a clause that states a negative

(grammar) A clause that can stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence and contains at least a subject and a verb.

(grammar) A subordinate clause that functions as an adverb within a main clause.

(grammar) A clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence, but functions as either a noun, adjective or adverb in a sentence.