Aggregate Derivative, Notional Amount

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Derivative, Notional Amount, Quarterly Reduction, Amount. Expressed as an absolute value.

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Fixed interest rate related to the interest rate derivative.

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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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Nominal or face amount used to calculate payment on derivative.

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The number of derivative instruments of a particular group held by the entity.

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Period the derivative contract is outstanding, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Derivatives - Narrative (Details) € in Millions	1 Months Ended		3 Months Ended
Derivatives - Narrative (Details) € in Millions	Nov. 30, 2018 USD ($)	Apr. 30, 2017 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($)	Nov. 30, 2019 USD ($) derivative_contract	Nov. 30, 2019 EUR (€) derivative_contract
Interest rate contracts
Derivative [Line Items]
Notional amount	$ 139,000,000.0	$ 60,000,000.0
Term of derivative contract	5 years	3 years
Derivative fixed interest rate (as a percent)	3.09%	1.58%
Derivative quarterly reduction amount			$ 5,000,000.0
Cross-currency swaps
Derivative [Line Items]
Notional amount				$ 25,000,000	€ 22.6
Number of instruments held \| derivative_contract				3	3
Aggregate notional amount				$ 75,000,000	€ 67.8