CONTANGO

Definition: CONTANGO

CONTANGO

Noun

1. The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation.

2. The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Note: Contango \Con*tan"go\ (k[o^]n*t[a^][ng]"g[-o]), noun; plural Contangoes. [Prob. a corruption of contingent.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Finance	Carrying over the settlement of a transaction from one account to the next for an extra consideration. Also the difference between the spot price and the price quoted for forward delivery reflecting storage, insurance and finance. Source: European Union. (references)
	The percentage which the buyer of stock pays to the seller to postpone transfer to the next settling-day. Source: European Union. (references)
	The payment of interest made by brokers for carrying over or continuing a debt from one Account to the next. Source: European Union. (references)
	A postponement of settlement of account on the Stock Exchange until the following period involving payment of a rate of interest on the account. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Contango The sum paid by a speculator on a "bull account" (i.e. a speculation on the rise in the price of certain stock), to defer completing the bargain till the next settling day. (See Backwardation ). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Mining	The situation when the price of a metal for forward or future delivery is greater than the cash or spot price of the metal. Contangos occur when the metal is in plentiful supply. The size of the contango does not normally exceed the cost of financing, insuring, and storing the metal over thefuture delivery period. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Contango is a technical term employed by the London Stock Exchange. It is almost the opposite of backwardation.

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Crosswords: CONTANGO

English words defined with "CONTANGO": Backwardation ♦ Contangoes. (references)

Specialty definitions using "CONTANGO": Stock Exchange Slang. (references)

Non-English Usage: "CONTANGO" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Portuguese (contango).

Domain	Title
Books	Contango (reference) (more book examples)
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"CONTANGO" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CONTANGO" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	15	90,616

Expression using "CONTANGO": contango transaction. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "CONTANGO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		contango (forwardation), reportforretninger (carry-over), report (carrying-over rate, forwardation), prolongationsforretninger (carry-over), prolongation (carry-over). (various references)

Dutch		report, prolongatiezaken (carry-over), prolongatierente (carrying-over rate, forwardation), prolongatie (carrying over, carryover, carry-over, contango transaction, continuation, prolongation). (various references)

Finnish		kontango. (various references)

French		taux de report, report, prix du report, opérations de report. (various references)

German		Report (expose, report), Börsenreport. (various references)

Greek		report (forwardation), σύμβαση μεταφοράς (carry-over), πράξεις παράτασης (carry-over), τίμημα αναβολής παραλαβής χρεογράφων (forwardation), δικαίωμα μεταφοράς (carrying-over rate), "ρεπόρ". (various references)

Hungarian		halasztási díj. (various references)

Italian		contratti di riporto (carry-over), tasso di riporto (forwardation), prezzo del riporto (forwardation), prezzo "future" maggiore del prezzo "spot", interesse di riporto (carrying-over rate). (various references)

Pig Latin		ontangocay

Portuguese		contango, prémio de reporte (forwardation), operações de reporte (carry-over), juros sobre operação, juros de empréstimo com garantia de titulo (carrying-over rate). (various references)

Russian		надбавка к цене. (various references)

Spanish		coste del reporte (forwardation), coste de la prolongación (forwardation), reporte (account), report (agio, premium), prórroga (adjourn, extension, prorogation, respite), operaciones de reporte (carry-over), operaciones de prolongación (carry-over), operaciones con prórroga (carry-over), interés sobre un préstamo de valores (carrying-over rate), aplazamiento de pago. (various references)

Swedish		terminspremie, terminspåslag. (various references)

Turkish		prim (bonus, bounty, premium), hisse senedi primi. (various references)

Ukrainian		репорт, контанго. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "CONTANGO" (pronounced 'Con*tan"go'): AErugo, Amigo, Arango, Argo, Bongo, Botargo, Bungo, Caligo, Camerlingo, Cargo, Cerago, Chimango, Colugo, Cundurango, Dago, Ferrugo, Fidalgo, flamingo, galago, Ginkgo, gringo, Hidalgo, imago, impetigo, intertrigo, jingo, lanugo, Largo, lentigo, lingo, lumbago, mango, Melligo, Non-ego, Pichiciago, plumbago, Pongo, Potargo, Prurigo, Rubigo, sago, Sargo, Sego, Serpigo, Solidago, sorgo, Squintifego, Stingo, Subimago, Suffrago. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-g-n-n-o-o-t"
	-1 letter: octagon.
	-2 letters: cannot, canton.
	-3 letters: ancon, canon, canto, cogon, conga, congo, conto, cotan, octan, tango, tonga.
	-4 letters: agon, anon, cant, coat, conn, coon, coot, gnat, goat, goon, nona, noon, nota, onto, taco, tang, toga, tong, toon.
	-5 letters: act, ago, ant, can, cat, cog, con, coo, cot, gan, gat, goa, goo, got, nag, nan, nog, noo.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-g-n-n-o-o-t"
	+1 letter: cognation, contagion.
	+2 letters: cartooning, cognations, contagions, coronating.
	+3 letters: cartoonings, cognitional, congelation, conjugation, nondogmatic.
	+4 letters: cogeneration, congelations, conglobating, conglobation, congregation, conjugations, consignation, consociating, coordinating, octogenarian.
	+5 letters: anthropogenic, cogenerations, configuration, conflagration, conglobations, congregations, conjugational, consignations, consolidating, incorporating, noncollegiate, nonconjugated, noncontagious, nonpathogenic, octogenarians, organogenetic, pathognomonic.
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Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Discount	Noun: discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance; qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio, percentage; rebate, rebatement; backwardation, contango; salvage; tare and tret.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Expression	Frequency per Day
contango	12
contango stallion	2
contango gas oil	2
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CONTANGO

Definition: CONTANGO

CONTANGO

Noun

Specialty Definition: CONTANGO

Finance

Literature

Mining

Specialty Definition: Contango

Synonyms within Context: CONTANGO

Discount

Crosswords: CONTANGO

Commercial Usage: CONTANGO

Books

Usage Frequency: CONTANGO

Expression: CONTANGO

Frequency of Internet Keywords: CONTANGO

contango

contango stallion

contango gas oil

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