Preferred Stock, Put Feature Exercisable, Probability Percentage

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Preferred Stock, Remaining In Future Periods, Probability Percentage

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Temporary Equity, Increase in Dividend Rate, Percentage

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Warrants And Rights Outstanding, Remain Outstanding In Future Periods, Probability Percentage

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Amount, after tax, of accumulated gain (loss) on derivative instrument designated and qualifying as cash flow hedge included in assessment of hedge effectiveness.

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Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.

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Fixed interest rate related to the interest rate derivative.

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Nominal or face amount used to calculate payment on derivative.

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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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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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Fair value portion of contractual arrangement with a lender under which borrowings can be made up to a specific amount at any point in time.

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Fair Value Measurements - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($)	9 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2020	Dec. 31, 2019	Feb. 28, 2019
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Class of warrant or right, exercise price of warrants or rights (in dollars per share)	$ 12.00
Warrants term	2 years 4 months 6 days	1 year 3 months
Line of credit, fair value disclosure	$ 12,800,000	$ 9,600,000
International lines of credit and other loans	$ 12,800,000	$ 9,600,000
Maximum
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Preferred stock remaining in future periods, probability percentage	50.00%	97.00%
Probability percentage of leverage ratio put being exercisable	20.00%	20.00%
Probability percentage warrants will remain outstanding in future periods	80.00%
Minimum
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Preferred stock remaining in future periods, probability percentage	2.00%	2.00%
Probability percentage of leverage ratio put being exercisable	1.00%	1.00%
Probability percentage warrants will remain outstanding in future periods	5.00%
Interest Rate Swap
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Derivative, notional amount			$ 700,000,000.0
Derivative, fixed interest rate			2.4575%
AOCI, cash flow hedge, cumulative gain (loss), net of tax	$ (15,000,000.0)
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Temporary equity, increase in dividend rate, percentage	11.625%