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The carrying value as of the balance sheet date of the current and noncurrent portions of long-term obligations drawn from a line of credit, which is a bank's commitment to make loans up to a specific amount. Examples of items that might be included in the application of this element may consist of letters of credit, standby letters of credit, and revolving credit arrangements, under which borrowings can be made up to a maximum amount as of any point in time conditional on satisfaction of specified terms before, as of and after the date of drawdowns on the line. Includes short-term obligations that would normally be classified as current liabilities but for which (a) postbalance sheet date issuance of a long term obligation to refinance the short term obligation on a long term basis, or (b) the enterprise has entered into a financing agreement that clearly permits the enterprise to refinance the short-term obligation on a long term basis and the following conditions are met (1) the agreement does not expire within 1 year and is not cancelable by the lender except for violation of an objectively determinable provision, (2) no violation exists at the BS date, and (3) the lender has entered into the financing agreement is expected to be financially capable of honoring the agreement.

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The cash outflow to reacquire common stock during the period.

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The number of shares authorized to be repurchased by an entity's Board of Directors under a stock repurchase plan.

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The remaining number of shares authorized to be repurchased by an entity's Board of Directors under a stock repurchase plan.

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Number of shares that have been repurchased during the period and are being held in treasury.

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TREASURY STOCK (Details)			12 Months Ended			14 Months Ended
TREASURY STOCK (Details)	Feb. 02, 2018 USD ($) shares	Feb. 01, 2018 USD ($) dealer	Mar. 31, 2020 USD ($) shares	Mar. 31, 2019 USD ($) shares	Mar. 31, 2018 USD ($) shares	Mar. 31, 2019 $ / shares shares	Jan. 16, 2018 shares	Oct. 24, 2017 shares	May 19, 2015 shares
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Stock authorized to repurchase under stock repurchase program (in shares)							25,000,000
Shares repurchased during the period, value \| $			$ 175,000,000	$ 14,468,000	$ 501,324,000
Restricted stock units
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Shares repurchased during the period (in shares)			519,241	451,683	408,097
Shares repurchased during the period, value \| $			$ 11,900,000	$ 11,900,000	$ 13,600,000
Dealer one
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Shares repurchased during the period, value \| $	$ 150,000,000
Dealer two
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Shares repurchased during the period, value \| $	$ 150,000,000
Line of credit \| Senior secured revolving credit facility
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Amount outstanding under credit facility \| $		$ 300,000,000	$ 450,000,000
Share repurchase program, May 2015
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Stock authorized to repurchase under stock repurchase program (in shares)									20,000,000
Shares repurchased during the period (in shares)	970,650				6,773,438
Shares repurchased during the period, value \| $	$ 27,600,000				$ 227,600,000
Common stock available to be purchased (in shares)					0
ASR Agreements
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Shares repurchased during the period (in shares)				3,679,947	7,387,862	11,067,809
Shares repurchased during the period, value \| $		$ 300,000,000		$ 96,800,000
Number of third-party financial institutions (the Dealers) \| dealer		2
Shares repurchased during the period from each of the dealers (in shares)	3,693,931
Shares repurchased as percentage of total expected to be repurchased	70.00%
Average cost per share (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares						$ 27.11
Share repurchase program, October 2017
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Stock authorized to repurchase under stock repurchase program (in shares)								25,000,000
Shares repurchased during the period (in shares)	6,417,212		7,116,159	543,251
Shares repurchased during the period, value \| $	$ 182,400,000		$ 175,000,000.0	$ 14,500,000
Common stock available to be purchased (in shares)			7,243,431