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Debt, Weighted Average Interest Rate, From Securitization

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Secured Long-Term Debt, Securitization Program, Noncurrent

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Securitization Facility, Fair Value Of Amount Outstanding

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Transferor's Interests In Transferred Financial Assets, Maximum Investment Limit

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Percentage points added to the reference rate to compute the variable rate on the debt instrument.

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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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Weighted average interest rate of debt outstanding.

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Amount, before accumulated amortization, of debt issuance costs. Includes, but is not limited to, legal, accounting, underwriting, printing, and registration costs.

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The total amount of the contingent obligation under letters of credit outstanding as of the reporting date.

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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 fee, expressed as a percentage of the line of credit facility, for the line of credit facility regardless of whether the facility has been used.

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Maximum borrowing capacity under the credit facility without consideration of any current restrictions on the amount that could be borrowed or the amounts currently outstanding under the facility.

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DEBT (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($)	12 Months Ended
DEBT (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018	May 03, 2018
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Maximum borrowing capacity			$ 2,200,000,000
Securitization program outstanding borrowings, maximum limit	$ 150,000,000.0
Securitization program, term	3 years
Outstanding borrowings from accounts receivable securitization revolving loan facility	$ 104,500,000	$ 121,200,000
Weighted average interest rate, accounts receivable securitization revolving loan facility	2.80%	3.40%
Level 2
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Securitization facility, outstanding borrowings, fair value	$ 105,800,000
Revolving Credit Facility
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Maximum borrowing capacity			1,300,000,000
Line of credit facility outstanding	$ 375,000,000.0	$ 345,000,000.0
Weighted average interest rate on debt	3.20%	4.00%
Revolving Credit Facility \| Level 2
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Outstanding borrowings, fair value	$ 381,100,000
Standby Letters of Credit
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Maximum borrowing capacity			60,000,000.0
Swingline Loan
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Maximum borrowing capacity			60,000,000.0
Term Loan Facility \| Secured Debt
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Maximum borrowing capacity			$ 900,000,000.0
Line of credit facility outstanding	$ 877,500,000	$ 900,000,000.0
Weighted average interest rate on debt	3.20%	3.90%
Term Loan Facility \| Secured Debt \| Level 2
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Outstanding borrowings, fair value	$ 889,900,000
Senior Credit Facility
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Capitalized incremental financing costs		$ 4,200,000
Senior Credit Facility \| Minimum
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Line of credit, commitment fee percentage	0.15%
Senior Credit Facility \| Maximum
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Line of credit, commitment fee percentage	0.35%
Senior Credit Facility \| Eurodollar \| Minimum
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Interest rates available to the company at its option	1.00%
Senior Credit Facility \| Eurodollar \| Maximum
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Interest rates available to the company at its option	1.75%
Senior Credit Facility \| Federal Funds
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Interest rates available to the company at its option	0.50%
Senior Credit Facility \| Federal Funds \| Minimum
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Interest rates available to the company at its option	0.00%
Senior Credit Facility \| Federal Funds \| Maximum
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Interest rates available to the company at its option	0.75%
Senior Credit Facility \| Prime Rate \| Minimum
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Interest rates available to the company at its option	0.00%
Senior Credit Facility \| Prime Rate \| Maximum
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Interest rates available to the company at its option	0.75%
Senior Credit Facility \| One Month Eurodollar Rate
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Interest rates available to the company at its option	1.00%
Senior Credit Facility \| One Month Eurodollar Rate \| Minimum
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Interest rates available to the company at its option	0.00%
Senior Credit Facility \| One Month Eurodollar Rate \| Maximum
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Interest rates available to the company at its option	0.75%
Senior Credit Facility \| Standby Letters of Credit
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Line of credit facility outstanding	$ 0
Letters of credit outstanding	$ 800,000	$ 600,000