(film, television) A contract between a producer and a studio in which the studio agrees to buy a movie or show at a future date and for a fixed sum.

plural of negative pickup

(linguistics) The unsuccessful use by a language learner of a construct from his/her source language in the target language, such that the resulting utterance in the target language is incorrect.

(derogatory) Thinking about negative possibilities, contemplating failure in such a way that it leads to those negative possibilities as a consequence.

(derogatory, informal) A person who is considered excessively and disagreeably pessimistic.

(grammar) a clause that states a negative

(finance) The amount by which the market value of a property falls below the amount of the mortgage secured upon it. / (finance) The situation in which a property is worth less than its mortgage.

Not negative. / (mathematics) Of an element of a partially ordered ring, either positive or zero; not negative; greater than or equal to zero.

(computing) A signed magnitude representation of zero in which the sign bit indicates a negative number.

(economics) The opposite of economic growth; economic decline.