parallel
adjective
uk/ˈpærəlel/ us ECONOMICS, COMMERCE
used to describe products that are bought in one country in an unofficial way and then sold more cheaply than usual in a different country:
Brandowners are not entirely opposed to parallel trade.
The government has adopted a labelling policy which requires distributors of parallel goods to label the origins of the goods.
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grey
IT
involving two or more computer processes happening at one time:
Groups of workstations act in parallel.
Compare
serial
See also
parallel import
parallel processing