staggered terms. Membership terms for a firm's directors that expire in different years. A firm with 12 directors might have 4-year terms with 3 seats up for election each year. Staggered terms make it more difficult for a raider to gain control of a board.
Definition of mood disorder. : any of several psychological disorders (as major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder) characterized by abnormalities of emotional state âcalled also affective disorder.
What is CYCLOTHYMIC DISORDER? in the DSM-IV-TR, a mood disorder marked by times of hypomanic indicators and times of depressive ones which happen over the span of two or more years, during which any period lacking indicators must persist no more than two months time.