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T-bill

Definition: T-bill

T-bill

Noun

1. A short-term obligation that is not interest-bearing (it is purchased at a discount); can be traded on a discount basis for 91 days.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: T-bill

DomainDefinitions

Finance

Is issued by the state, the interest being paid at issue in the form of discount ; a short-term financial instrument which does not give any interest and is sold by the government at a discount through the central bank. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: T-bill

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Zambia

The prime lending rate is fixed at 46.9%, and the yield on the 3-month government T-bill is 42.25%. Inflation in January 2001 was 30%. (references)

Zimbabwe

While the RBZ is a major force in setting interest rates (through reserve requirements, T-Bill issuance and the discount rate), rates up until recently have been primarily market driven. (references)

Moldova

The State regulates credit policy via: credit from the National Bank, auctioned through commercial banks; compulsory reserves; credits secured through collateral; open market operations; and T-bill auctions on the primary market. (references)

Trade

Egypt

The CBE uses T-Bill auctions and discount rates in its monetary policy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translations: T-bill

Language Translations for "T-bill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

Treasury bill, bon du Trésor court terme, bon du Trésor. (various references)

   

German

  

Schatzwechsel (Exchequer bond, government bond, short-term Treasury bond, Treasury bill, treasury note, treasury notes), Schatzschein (Exchequer bond, government bond, short-term Treasury bond, Treasury bill, treasury note), kurzfristige Schatzanweisung (Exchequer bond, government bond, short-term Treasury bond, Treasury bill). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έντοκο γραμμάτιο του "ημοσίου (Exchequer bond, government bond, short-term Treasury bond, Treasury bill), γραμμάτια "ημοσίου (Exchequer bond, government bond, short-term Treasury bond, Treasury bill), ομόλογα "ημοσίου (Exchequer bond, government bond, short-term Treasury bond, Treasury bill). (various references)

   

Italian

  

buono del Tesoro a breve termine (Exchequer bond, government bond, short-term Treasury bond, Treasury bill), buono del tesoro (Exchequer bond, government bond, short-term Treasury bond, Treasury bill), buoni ordinari del Tesoro (Exchequer bond, government bond, short-term Treasury bond, Treasury bill), BOT (Bo/T, Exchequer bond, fraction of zero binding with respect to total, government bond, short-term Treasury bond, Treasury bill, Treasury note). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

promissória do Tesouro (Exchequer bond, government bond, short-term Treasury bond, Treasury bill), obrigacão do Tesouro (Exchequer bond, government bond, short-term Treasury bond, Treasury bill), obrigação do Tesouro de curto prazo (Exchequer bond, government bond, short-term Treasury bond, Treasury bill). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

bono del Tesoro a corto plazo (Exchequer bond, government bond, short-term Treasury bond, Treasury bill), bono del Tesoro (Exchequer bond, government bond, short-term Treasury bond, Treasury bill). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: T-bill

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-i-l-l-t"

-1 letter: bill, lilt, till.

-2 letters: bit, ill, lib, lit, til.

-3 letters: bi, it, li, ti.

 Words containing the letters "b-i-l-l-t"
 

+1 letter: billet.

 

+2 letters: billets, twibill.

 

+3 letters: balletic, ballista, bastille, belittle, beltline, billeted, billeter, blithely, boatbill, bulletin, bulliest, bullshit, lability, libelant, libelist, liftable, listable, spitball, tillable, tiltable, tribally, trilobal, tullibee, twibills.

 

+4 letters: balladist, ballistae, ballistic, balloting, ballpoint, ballsiest, bastilles, belittled, belittler, belittles, beltlines, bestially, bilateral, billeters, billeting, billionth, blacklist, blacktail, blotchily, boatbills, botulinal, braillist, brilliant, brittlely, bulleting, bulletins, bullfight, bullshits, dilatable, ebullient, eightball, filtrable, globalist, liability, libelants, libelists, libellant, lightbulb, limitable, litigable, rubellite, spitballs, stickball, stillborn, subtilely, tullibees.

 

+5 letters: ablatively, balladists, ballasting, ballistics, balloonist, ballpoints, belittlers, belittling, belletrist, bicultural, billionths, billowiest, bimetallic, blacklists, blacktails, bloodguilt, braillists, brilliants, bulletined, bullfights, bustlingly, cultivable, ebullition, eightballs, fibrillate, filterable, globalists, habitually, inflatable, isolatable, jubilantly, labilities, legibility, libellants, liberalist, liberality, lightbulbs, likability, listenable, livability, lobulation, lovability, multilobed, obligately, outbullied, outbullies, pliability, potbellied, potbellies, rubellites, salability, sheathbill, sibilantly, solubility, stickballs, stillbirth, stillborns, storksbill, thimbleful, timbrelled, tourbillon, untillable, utilizable, volubility.

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

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Alternative Orthography: T-bill


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

54 2D 62 69 6C 6C

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

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

01010100 00101101 01100010 01101001 01101100 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#45 &#98 &#105 &#108 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 002D 0062 0069 006C 006C

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

541568757878

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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