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Preferred Stock, Change In Control Put Feature, Probability, Percentage

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Preferred Stock, Put Feature Exercisable, Probability Percentage

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Preferred Stock, Remaining In Future Periods, Probability Percentage

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Temporary Equity, Dividends Withholdings Net Cash Distribution

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Temporary Equity, Dividends Withholdings, Offset From Purchasers Upon Redemption

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Temporary Equity, Liquidation Preference, Percentage

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Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.

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Fixed interest rate related to the interest rate derivative.

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Nominal or face amount used to calculate payment on 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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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 fair value amount of long-term debt whether such amount is presented as a separate caption or as a parenthetical disclosure. Additionally, this element may be used in connection with the fair value disclosures required in the footnote disclosures to the financial statements. The element may be used in both the balance sheet and disclosure in the same submission.

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The cash outflow for a financial contract that meets the hedge criteria as either a cash flow hedge, fair value hedge, or hedge of a net investment in a foreign operation.

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Period between issuance and expiration of outstanding warrant and right embodying unconditional obligation requiring redemption by transferring asset at specified or determinable date or upon event certain to occur, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Fair Value Measurements - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands	9 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2021	Sep. 30, 2020	Dec. 31, 2020
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Warrants term	3 years 7 months 6 days		2 years 4 months 24 days
Cash settlements for interest rate swaps	$ 15,420	$ 0
Foreign Line of Credit
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
International lines of credit and other loans	11,398		$ 14,418
Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) \| Foreign Line of Credit
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Long-term debt, fair value	$ 11,400		$ 14,400
Minimum
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Change-in-control put feature	1.00%
Preferred stock remaining in future periods, probability percentage			2.00%
Probability percentage of leverage ratio put being exercisable			1.00%
Maximum
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Change-in-control put feature	10.00%
Preferred stock remaining in future periods, probability percentage			3.00%
Probability percentage of leverage ratio put being exercisable			10.00%
Interest Rate Swap
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Derivative, fixed interest rate	1.291%		2.4575%
Cash settlements for interest rate swaps	$ 13,700
Derivative, notional amount	60,000		$ 700,000
Series B Preferred Stock
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Dividends withholdings net cash distribution	3,000
Dividends withholdings offset from purchasers upon redemption	$ 1,000
Class of warrant or right, exercise price of warrants or rights (in dollars per share)			$ 12.00
Adjusted exercise price of warrants or rights (in dollars per share)	$ 11.49
Series D Preferred Stock
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Class of warrant or right, exercise price of warrants or rights (in dollars per share)	$ 0.01
Liquidation preference	140.00%