An individual (often a lawyer) appointed to represent the best interests of a child or incapacitated person for the purpose of a legal procedure.

Alternative form of value added tax

(taxation) A tax levied on the added value that results from the exchange of goods and services

A communications network with additional functions such as error correction, protocol conversion and message storing.

(rhetoric) The false proof of a statement by (prolonged) repetition, possibly by different people.

(rhetoric) argumentum ad populum.

(rhetoric) A fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or all people believe it; it alleges that “if many believe so, it is so”.

(rhetoric) An argument from authority, or an appeal to authority.

A company that adds some features to existing products, then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete turn-key solution.

(rhetoric, rare) An appeal to poverty; the logical fallacy of thinking a conclusion is correct because the speaker is poor.