CREDIT MOBILIER

  

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CREDIT MOBILIER

Definition: CREDIT MOBILIER

CREDIT MOBILIER

1. A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the credit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: CREDIT MOBILIER

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Literature

Credit Mobilier (French). A company licensed to take in hand all sorts of trading enterprises, such as railways, and to carry on the business of stock-jobbers. The word mobilier means personal property, general stock, as bien mobilier (personal chattels), mobilier vif et mort (live and dead stock). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: CREDIT MOBILIER

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Treasury

Sinking fund; stocks; public stocks, public funds, public securities, parliamentary stocks, parliamentary funds, parliamentary securities; Consols, credit mobilier; bonds.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: CREDIT MOBILIER

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Books

  • Credit Mobilier (reference)

  • The Credit Mobilier of America: Its Origin and History, Its Work of Constructing the Union Pacific Railroad and the Relation of Members of Congress (reference)

  • The Role of Banks in Monitoring Firms: The Case of the Credit Mobilier (Routledge Exploration in Economic History, 14) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CREDIT MOBILIER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

credit mobilier

7

credit mobilier scandal

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: CREDIT MOBILIER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-e-i-i-i-l-m-o-r-r-t"

-4 letters: cordierite, microliter.

-5 letters: biometric, deciliter, delimiter, doleritic, embroider, embroiled, tremblier.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CREDIT MOBILIER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 52 45 44 49 54      4D 4F 42 49 4C 49 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01010010 01000101 01000100 01001001 01010100 00100000 01001101 01001111 01000010 01001001 01001100 01001001 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#82 &#69 &#68 &#73 &#84 &#32 &#77 &#79 &#66 &#73 &#76 &#73 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0052 0045 0044 0049 0054      004D 004F 0042 0049 004C 0049 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37523938435424749364346433952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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