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Stock Repurchase Program, Percentage Of Total Number Of Shares Expected To be Repurchased

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Treasury Stock, Shares, Acquired From Each Of Dealers

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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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The carrying value as of the balance sheet date of the current and noncurrent portions of long-term obligations drawn from a line of credit, which is a bank's commitment to make loans up to a specific amount. Examples of items that might be included in the application of this element may consist of letters of credit, standby letters of credit, and revolving credit arrangements, under which borrowings can be made up to a maximum amount as of any point in time conditional on satisfaction of specified terms before, as of and after the date of drawdowns on the line. Includes short-term obligations that would normally be classified as current liabilities but for which (a) postbalance sheet date issuance of a long term obligation to refinance the short term obligation on a long term basis, or (b) the enterprise has entered into a financing agreement that clearly permits the enterprise to refinance the short-term obligation on a long term basis and the following conditions are met (1) the agreement does not expire within 1 year and is not cancelable by the lender except for violation of an objectively determinable provision, (2) no violation exists at the BS date, and (3) the lender has entered into the financing agreement is expected to be financially capable of honoring the agreement.

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The cash outflow to reacquire common stock during the period.

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Number of shares used to settle grantee's tax withholding obligation for award under share-based payment arrangement.

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The number of shares authorized to be repurchased by an entity's Board of Directors under a stock repurchase plan.

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The remaining number of shares authorized to be repurchased by an entity's Board of Directors under a stock repurchase plan.

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Total cost of shares repurchased divided by the total number of shares repurchased.

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Number of shares that have been repurchased during the period and are being held in treasury.

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TREASURY STOCK (Details) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands			7 Months Ended	9 Months Ended		12 Months Ended	26 Months Ended	33 Months Ended
	Feb. 02, 2018 USD ($) shares	Feb. 01, 2018 USD ($) dealer	Aug. 31, 2018 $ / shares shares	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($) shares	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($) shares	Mar. 31, 2018 USD ($) shares	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($) shares	Mar. 31, 2018 USD ($) shares	Jan. 16, 2018 shares	Oct. 24, 2017 shares	May 19, 2015 shares
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Stock authorized to repurchase under stock repurchase program (in shares)									25,000,000
Shares repurchased during the period, value \| $				$ 125,000	$ 0
Restricted stock units
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Shares paid for tax withholding (in shares)				509,532	430,406
Cost related to tax withholding \| $				$ 11,600	$ 11,400
Senior secured revolving credit facility \| Line of credit
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Amount borrowed for repurchase \| $		$ 300,000		$ 450,000			$ 450,000
Share repurchase program, May 2015
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Stock authorized to repurchase under stock repurchase program (in shares)											20,000,000
Shares repurchased during the period (in shares)						970,650		20,000,000
Shares repurchased during the period, value \| $						$ 27,600		$ 607,600
Stock remaining to be purchased (in shares)						0		0
Share repurchase program, October 2017
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Stock authorized to repurchase under stock repurchase program (in shares)					25,000,000					25,000,000
Shares repurchased during the period (in shares)				5,164,593		6,417,212	15,805,003
Shares repurchased during the period, value \| $				$ 125,000		$ 182,400	$ 418,700
ASR Agreements
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Shares repurchased during the period (in shares)	7,387,862		11,067,809		3,679,947
Shares repurchased during the period, value \| $		$ 300,000			$ 96,800
Stock remaining to be purchased (in shares)				9,194,997			9,194,997
Stock repurchase program, number of dealers \| dealer		2
Number of shares acquired from each of dealers (in shares)	3,693,931
Percentage of total number of shares expected to be repurchased	70.00%
Shares repurchased during the period, average cost per share (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares			$ 27.11
ASR Agreements \| Dealer one
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Shares repurchased during the period, value \| $	$ 150,000
ASR Agreements \| Dealer two
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Shares repurchased during the period, value \| $	$ 150,000