Lessee, Operating Lease, Lease Not yet Commenced

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Lessee, Operating Lease, Lease Not yet Commenced, Number Of Contracts

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Right-of-Use Asset, Impairment

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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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Term of lessee's operating lease not yet commenced, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 842
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=77888426&loc=SL77918673-209980

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Rental expense for the reporting period incurred under operating leases, including minimum and any contingent rent expense, net of related sublease income.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/otherTransitionRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 840
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=77902758&loc=d3e41499-112717

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Leases - Narrative (Details) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
Leases - Narrative (Details) $ in Millions	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($) lease_contract	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($)
Lessee, Lease, Description [Line Items]
Number of lease contracts \| lease_contract	2
Lease not yet commenced	$ 62.0
Rent expense		$ 163.8	$ 144.7
Right-of-use asset, impairment	$ 0.8
Minimum \| Lease one
Lessee, Lease, Description [Line Items]
Lease not yet commenced, term of contract	7 years
Maximum \| Lease two
Lessee, Lease, Description [Line Items]
Lease not yet commenced, term of contract	10 years