| eligible demand | An exact demand item, such as a request, need, condition, case, or candidate Work item, that may be considered for current admission. Identify the demand claim and the subject it concerns separately. Eligibility is not admission, priority, permission, commitment, or Work. |
| option or request | A possible demand item presented for consideration. Its presence in a list or account creates no right to admission. |
| admission decision | A bounded decision about whether exact demand may enter the selected current coordination account under stated criteria, limits, horizon, and authority. |
| admitted item | Eligible demand whose admission conditions obtain for the stated configuration and horizon. Admission permits a further start decision under its conditions; it does not establish start or result. |
| deferred item | Demand not admitted now, with the observation, condition, horizon, or changed fact that would make reconsideration useful. |
| rejected item | Demand declined for this operating use, with its reason and any receiving return that another owner can answer. |
| returned item | Demand for which a named missing, stale, unsupported, or externally owned condition prevents this admission decision. |
| start permission | An obtaining permission or authorization for the admitted matter under effective conditions. A comparison or selected answer is not permission unless the deciding System also has and exercises the required authority. |
| explicit-start limit | A stated bound on what may be started now for this operating use. It is not a universal WIP number, capacity model, queue policy, or constraint-buffer design. |
| commitment | A promise or obligation with parties, content, conditions, horizon, authority, and status. Admission can rely on or create a bounded commitment only where the relevant authority is present. |
| authorized starter | The System permitted to initiate the admitted Work under the effective conditions. Responsibility, capability, availability, and permission remain separate. |
| Work occurrence | Dated Work whose occurrence is established from performance evidence, independently of the demand-admission decision. A card move, approval, selected item, plan, agent invocation, or generated artifact does not establish that Work occurred. |
| residual demand | Every considered or still-relevant demand item not in the admitted set, with enough identity and disposition to avoid hidden starts or silent loss. |
| admission result | The dispositions, reasons, conditions, authority, horizon, starter relations, residual demand, and next review or return that make the admission decision usable. |