The minimum purchase price of stock purchase options expressed as a percentage of the fair market value.

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The payroll deduction period over which specified payroll deductions are made to accumulate funds used for share-based payment award.

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The aggregate amount of noncash, equity-based employee remuneration. This may include the value of stock or unit options, amortization of restricted stock or units, and adjustment for officers' compensation. As noncash, this element is an add back when calculating net cash generated by operating activities using the indirect method.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 28
-Subparagraph (a)
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Estimated period over which an employee is required to provide service in exchange for the equity-based payment award, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (a)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6415400&loc=d3e5070-113901

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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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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Share-Based Compensation Plans - Other Stock Plans (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based compensation	$ 27.1	$ 31.1	$ 40.6
Savings Related Share Option Scheme for United Kingdom
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Requisite service period (in years)	1 year
Purchase price as percentage of market value (not less than)	85.00%
Payroll deduction period to accumulate funds used for share-based payment award	60 months
Share-based compensation	$ 0.1	$ 0.1	$ 0.1
Vesting period one \| Savings Related Share Option Scheme for United Kingdom
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based payment award vesting period	3 years
Vesting period two \| Savings Related Share Option Scheme for United Kingdom
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based payment award vesting period	5 years
Vesting period three \| Savings Related Share Option Scheme for United Kingdom
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based payment award vesting period	7 years