Dividends, Cash, Installment Amount

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Dividends, Number of Installments

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Amount of paid and unpaid cash dividends declared for classes of stock, for example, but not limited to, common and preferred.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 505
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.3-04)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=27012166&loc=d3e187085-122770

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 942
-SubTopic 405
-Section 45
-Paragraph 2
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6957935&loc=d3e64057-112817

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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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Cash outflow in the form of capital distributions and dividends to common shareholders, preferred shareholders and noncontrolling interests.

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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 15
-Subparagraph (a)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=98514028&loc=d3e3291-108585

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Dividend (Details) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
Dividend (Details) $ in Thousands	Nov. 25, 2018 USD ($)	Feb. 25, 2018 USD ($) installment	Aug. 26, 2018 USD ($)	Aug. 27, 2017 USD ($)
Dividends Payable [Line Items]
Dividend declared		$ 90,000
Number of dividend installments \| installment		2
Dividend installments		$ 45,000
Dividend paid			$ 45,000	$ 35,000
Scenario, Forecast [Member]
Dividends Payable [Line Items]
Dividend paid	$ 45,000