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Lines of Credit and Financing Arrangements (Asset Securitization Program, Textuals) (Details) - USD ($) | 12 Months Ended |  |  |
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Dec. 31, 2017 | Nov. 13, 2017 | Dec. 31, 2016 | Jul. 05, 2016
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Maximum securitization, amount |  |  |  | $ 325,000,000
Maximum securitization as percentage of net pool balance | 100.00% |  |  |
Program fee (as a percent) | 0.70% |  |  |
Average floating commercial paper rate (as a percent) | 2.60% |  | 1.66% |
Unused fee (as a percent) | 101.00% |  |  |
Fixed rate of agreement (as a percent) | 0.35% |  |  |
Line of Credit [Member] |  |  |  |
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Minimum amount of principal or interest due on indebtedness or receivable securitization | $ 75,000,000.0 |  |  |
Maximum [Member] |  |  |  |
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Amount Available Under Asset Securitization |  | $ 380,000,000 |  |
Minimum [Member] |  |  |  |
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Amount Available Under Asset Securitization |  | $ 225,000,000 |  | $ 200,000,000

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- Definition Amount available under asset securitization. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition Average floating commercial paper rate. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition Fixed rate of agreement. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition Maximum amount available under asset securitization. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition Maximum securitization as percentage of net pool balance. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition Minimum amount of principal or interest due on indebtedness or receivable securitization. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition Percentage of maximum available amount used to charge unused fee. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition Program fee. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition 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. + References No definition available. + Details
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