Unit
1. Organisations - operations - financial reporting.
A separately identifiable part of an organisation.
For example, a cash-generating unit or a strategic business unit in a commercial organisation.
2. Organisations - specialisms.
A specialist group within a larger organisation.
For example, the Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit of the UK police.
3. Manufacturing - production.
A single manufactured item.
Or a comparable single item of services.
For example, in the related cost per unit.
4. Measurement - metrics - standards.
A standardised amount - or other measure - of something, used to enable comparisons.
For example, the Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit in shipping.
Or the World currency unit.
5. Unit trusts.
The smallest measure of investment in a unit trust.
Comparable with a single share in other companies.
