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portability
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Portability \Port`a*bil"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being portable; fitness to be carried.
Wiktionary
n. 1 the quality of being portable 2 (context computing English) the ability of a program (or software system) to execute properly on multiple hardware platforms 3 the ability of an employee to move between different social security schemes without losing their contributions 4 the ability of a telephone subscriber to keep his/her number when switching to a different network
WordNet
n. the quality of being light enough to be carried
Wikipedia
The portability of social security benefits is the ability of workers to preserve, maintain, and transfer acquired social security rights and social security rights in the process of being acquired from one private, occupational, or public social security scheme to another. Social security rights refer to rights stemming from pension schemes (old age, survivor, disability), unemployment insurance, health insurance, workers' compensation, and sickness benefits.
Hence, if social security benefits are portable, contributors to, for example, old-age pension schemes do not experience any disadvantage such as the loss of contributions and benefits associated with these contributions when moving from one job to another, from one occupation to another, or from the public to the private sector or vice versa.
International portability of social security rights allows international migrants, who have contributed to a social security scheme for some time in a particular country, to maintain acquired benefits or benefits in the process of being acquired when moving to another country. International portability of social security benefits is therefore understood as the migrant's ability to preserve, maintain, and transfer acquired social security rights independent of nationality and country of residence.
International portability of social security benefits is achieved through bilateral or multilateral social security agreements between countries. These agreements guarantee the totalization of periods of contribution to the social security systems of both countries and the extraterritorial payment of benefits. Currently it is estimated that approximately 23 per cent of migrants worldwide are covered by bilateral social security agreements.
Portability may refer to:
- Portability (social security), the portability of social security benefits
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Porting, the ability of a computer program to be ported from one system to another in computer science
- Software portability, the portability of a piece of software to multiple platforms
- Telephone number portability (disambiguation) keeping one telephone number while switching one's account to another telephony provider
- Portlet, user interface software components that are managed and displayed in a web portal
- Portability of the estate tax exclusion amount regarding Estate tax in the United States
Usage examples of "portability".
E-books have yet to develop the user-friendliness, platform-independence, portability, browsability and many other attributes of this ingenious medium, the Gutenberg tome.
And it's no coincidence that it was during Hillary's period of relative disempowerment, from 1995-1997, that Clinton accomplished virtually all of his major achievements as president: welfare reform, balancing the budget, raising the minimum wage, and passing portability of health benefits.
His flashlight beam gave him a quick explanation of where the Condor got his electrical power: a heavy-duty generator run by a gasoline engine, mounted on a rubber-tired vehicle of some sort for portability.
The font is six-sided and encrusted with saints, like a gigantic hex nut forged for some obscure yet holy purpose, but its most impressive feature is its portability.