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Represents number of large customers accounted for entity's major share of accounts receivable during the reporting period.

No definition available.

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Represents number of large commercial customers of the entity accounted for major share in costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings on uncompleted contracts.

No definition available.

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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.

No definition available.

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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