Effective Income Tax Reconciliation, Change in Enacted Tax Rate, Impact on Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities, Amount

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Per share amount of income tax benefit for remeasurement of deferred tax liability from change in tax rate pursuant to Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

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Amount of income tax benefit for remeasurement of deferred tax liability relating to transition tax from change in tax rate pursuant to Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

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Per share amount of income tax benefit for remeasurement of deferred tax liability relating to transition tax from change in tax rate pursuant to Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

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Per Share Amount of income tax expense (benefit) for remeasurement of deferred tax from change in tax rate pursuant to Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

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The per share of net income tax benefit for remeasurement of deferred tax from change in tax rate pursuant to Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

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Period of time over which TCJA transition tax on certain unrepatriated earnings of foreign subsidiaries may be paid.

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Percentage of domestic federal statutory tax rate applicable to pretax income (loss).

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Amount of reported income tax expense (benefit) in excess of (less than) expected income tax expense (benefit) computed by applying domestic federal statutory income tax rate to pretax income (loss) from continuing operations, attributable to increase (decrease) from transition tax on accumulated earnings of controlled foreign corporation deemed repatriated pursuant to Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

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Amount of the difference between reported income tax expense (benefit) and expected income tax expense (benefit) computed by applying the domestic federal statutory income tax rates to pretax income (loss) from continuing operations, attributable to increase (decrease) in the income tax rates.

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SEGMENTS - Tax Act (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Millions	3 Months Ended				12 Months Ended
	May 31, 2020	Feb. 23, 2020	Nov. 24, 2019	Aug. 25, 2019	May 31, 2020	May 26, 2019	May 27, 2018
SEGMENTS
Net tax benefit for the re-measurement of U.S. deferred taxes							$ 39.9
Provisional net tax benefit							28.4
Transition tax liability						$ (2.4)	$ 11.5
Transition tax payable (in years)							8 years
Benefit from lower tax rate	$ 4.2	$ (6.4)
Expense (benefit) from impact of remeasuring net US corporate tax rate	(2.8)	7.4	$ (15.4)	$ (14.0)		$ (27.2)	$ (64.7)
Per share change from impact of remeasuring net US corporate tax rate (in dollars per share)						$ 0.19	$ 0.44
Benefit related to change in tax rate						$ 24.8	$ 36.3
Per share change related to change in tax rate (in dollars per share)						$ 0.17	$ 0.25
Benefit relating to lower U.S. corporate tax rate	$ 1.4	$ 1.0				$ 2.4
Per share change from benefit relating to lower U.S. corporate tax rate (in dollars per share)						$ 0.02
Federal statutory tax rate (as a percent)					21.00%	21.00%	29.30%
Benefit for one-time items							$ (28.4)
Per share change from benefit for one-time items							$ 0.19