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Period Preceding Change In Control When Terminated Employee Becomes Vested In All Unvested Awards

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Share-Based Compensation Arrangement By Share-Based Payment Award, Accelerated Vesting, Percentage

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Share-Based Compensation Arrangement By Share-Based Payment Award, Period Of Additional Tranche Conditional Upon Termination

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Number of Annual Award Vesting Installments

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Amount of cost not yet recognized for nonvested award under share-based payment arrangement.

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Weighted-average period over which cost not yet recognized is expected to be recognized for award under share-based payment arrangement, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Amount of tax benefit for recognition of expense of award under share-based payment arrangement.

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Period over which grantee's right to exercise award under share-based payment arrangement is no longer contingent on satisfaction of service or performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. Includes, but is not limited to, combination of market, performance or service condition.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Period from grant date that an equity-based award expires, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Weighted average remaining contractual term for option awards outstanding, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Stock-Based Compensation Expense (Narrative) (Detail) $ in Millions		12 Months Ended
	Jun. 04, 2018 shares	Dec. 31, 2020 USD ($) installment shares	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($)
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expiration period	10 years
Period of additional tranche conditional upon termination	1 year
Period preceding change in control when terminated employee becomes vested in all unvested awards	3 months
Period following change in control when terminated employee becomes vested in all unvested awards	12 months
Stock-based compensation expense, tax		$ 0.9	$ 1.4
Stock Options
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested awards		$ 2.2	$ 2.2
Weighted-average recognition period		2 years 4 months 24 days	2 years 4 months 24 days
Restricted Stock Units
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested awards		$ 3.5	$ 5.5
Weighted-average recognition period		1 year 10 months 24 days	1 year 10 months 24 days
Accelerated Vesting Due To Termination
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Accelerated vesting	50.00%
Class A Common Stock
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Number of shares authorized (in shares) \| shares	2,222,223
Class A Common Stock \| 2020 Plan
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Number of shares available for grant (in shares) \| shares		2,100,000
Management \| Stock Options
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Contractual term		5 years
Vesting period		4 years
Management \| First and second anniversaries \| Stock Options
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award vesting rights		30.00%
Management \| Third and fourth anniversaries \| Stock Options
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award vesting rights		20.00%
Non Employee Directors \| Stock Options
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Contractual term		5 years
Number of annual award vesting installments \| installment		4