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Share-Based Payments - Summary of Share Based Payment Performance Condition (Parenthetical) (Detail) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
Absolute Total Shareholder Return ("TSR") [member] |
Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items] |
Compounded annual growth rate index trading days | 60 trading days

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- Definition Line items represent concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes of the table. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Details
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