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Definition: Coupon |
CouponNoun1. A negotiable certificate that can be detached and redeemed as needed. 2. A test sample of some substance. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "coupon" was first used: 1822. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | (1) a tab attached to a bond, which can be torn off and presented to collect an interest payment, usually semiannually. (2) a percentage of a bond's face value, which is the annual rate of return received by the bondholder. (references) |
Literature | Coupon A certificate of interest which is to be cut off [French, couper ] from a bond and presented for payment. It bears on its face the date and amount of interest to be paid. If the coupons are exhausted before the principal is paid off, new ones are gratuitously supplied to the holder of the bond. Most foreign state-bonds expire in a stated term of years, generally a portion being paid off annually at par. Suppose there are 1,000 bonds, and 10 are paid off annually, then in 100 years all are paid off and the obligation is cancelled. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CouponSynonym: voucher (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discount | Coupon, discount coupon, cents-off coupon; store coupon, manufacturer's coupon; double coupon discount, triple coupon discount. |
Money | Paper money, greenback; major denomination, minor denomination; money order, postal money order, Post Office order; bank note; bond; bill, bill of exchange; order, warrant, coupon, debenture, exchequer bill, assignat; blueback, hundi, shinplaster. |
Securities | Share, stock certificate; coupon, bond coupon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Coupon |
| English words defined with "coupon": luncheon voucher ♦ meal ticket ♦ twofer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "coupon": asset based swap ♦ body copy ♦ coupon due date ♦ de-leveraged bonds, dual index note, dual-currency issues, due date of coupon ♦ inverse floater ♦ lange værdipapirer i løbende udbud ♦ Matif 5-year, Matif 5-year futures contract, money value ♦ putable bond ♦ range bonds, retractable bond, roly-poly bond ♦ step-up bond ♦ to declare, to make payable ♦ warrant into government securities, WIC vouchers ♦ zero coupon French bond, zero's. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Coupon" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (coupon), French (coupon, cutting, oddment), German (coupon, voucher), Italian (coupon, voucher). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You know I have filled out entry blanks for every single drawing in the supermarket for the last twelve years, and the only thing I ever won was a coupon for a small little jar of tomato paste. (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; writing credit: Jerry Adelman; Daniel Gregory Browne) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Last Coupon (1932) A Coupon Courtship (1913) | |
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Consumer Goods | |||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Printing war ration book 2. Jessie Calabase stacks the sheets containing four coupon books as they come from the collator ready to be transferred to the cutting department. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | According to the government plan, Unipetrol should be privatized by 2002. The third country's refinery, Paramo Pardubice, was privatized in the coupon privatization. (references) | |
The German Direct Marketing Association (DDV) that well over 70 percent of all printed advertisements feature so-called "dialog elements," such as telephone hotlines, websites or email addresses, coupon response cards, fax polling numbers, or simply the company address. (references) | ||
Skymail/InfoUSA collects promotional material from the tourism offices and the convention and visitors bureaus of states and cities in the U.S. all inquiries received by mail or over the phone are forwarded to Skymail/InfoUSA, who then replies to the approximately 30-40 inquiries per day, by sending a list of the material available and an order coupon to the requesting party. (references) | ||
Economic History | Russia | Generally, these bonds are long maturity, floating rate coupon bonds tied to the USD /R exchange rate. (references) |
Russia | Part of the reason for the lack of trading is that most non-S Account bonds have coupon payments and puts exercisable on coupon payment dates, so there is little trading except just before coupon dates. (references) | |
Malaysia | Private domestic debt was significantly larger, accounting for 134% of GNP at year-end 2000. In June 2001, the government reentered international debt markets, with a 10-year U.S.$1 billion bond issue, with a 7.5% coupon rate, yielding 7.7%. The Government plans to use proceeds to fund infrastructure projects to boost slowing economic growth. (references) | |
Political Economy | ECUADOR | In October 1999, Ecuador also failed to meet a coupon payment on its Eurobonds. (references) |
EGYPT | The ten-year bond issuance totaled $1 billion with a coupon of 8.75 percent and a spread of 335 basis points over U.S. treasury bills. (references) | |
EGYPT | Egypt launched its first Eurobond issuance in June 2001. The five-year bond issuance totaled $500 million with a 7.625 percent coupon priced at 275 basis points over U.S. treasury bills. (references) | |
Trade | Croatia | Euro 105 million was placed for 3 years with an 8 percent coupon and another Euro 225 million for 5 years with a 8.375 percent coupon. (references) |
Jamaica | The Bonds carry a coupon rate of 5.5 percent per annum; the funds are on lent in turn to the financial institutions, via the wholesaling mechanism, at 6.5 percent per annum and final borrowers receive their loans at 9.5 percent per annum which is fixed for the duration of the loan. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Coupon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Coupon" is used about 561 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% | 561 | 11,166 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "coupon": bond coupon ♦ coupon attached ♦ coupon bond ♦ coupon due date ♦ coupon origin and destination ♦ coupon privatization ♦ cum coupon ♦ current coupon issues ♦ discount coupon ♦ dividend coupon ♦ double coupon discount ♦ due date of coupon ♦ ex coupon ♦ guarantee coupon ♦ lottery coupon ♦ manufacturer's coupon ♦ pools coupon ♦ postal reply coupon ♦ renewal coupon ♦ reply coupon ♦ triple coupon discount ♦ zero coupon bond ♦ zero coupon Eurosterling bearer registered accruing security ♦ zero coupon French bond. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "coupon": coupon-rate. | |
Ending with "coupon": high-coupon, low-coupon, zero-coupon. | |
Containing "coupon": zero-coupon bond, zero-coupon security. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
coupon | 10,124 | pizza hut coupon | 504 |
grocery coupon | 2,695 | baby coupon | 466 |
free coupon | 2,008 | love coupon | 459 |
dell coupon | 1,718 | discount coupon | 453 |
amazon coupon | 1,311 | bath bed beyond coupon | 445 |
restaurant coupon | 1,212 | chuck e cheese coupon | 420 |
las vegas coupon | 1,197 | office max coupon | 416 |
staple coupon | 1,179 | old navy coupon | 410 |
online coupon | 1,165 | six flag coupon | 396 |
coupon onlinecouponnet oreck vacuum | 1,120 | jc penney coupon | 381 |
printable coupon | 1,040 | gap coupon | 374 |
j crew coupon | 1,011 | subway coupon | 366 |
hotel coupon | 897 | best buy coupon | 362 |
car rental coupon | 877 | buy.com coupon | 361 |
food coupon | 715 | amazon.com coupon | 359 |
half.com coupon | 712 | barnes noble coupon | 358 |
free grocery coupon | 651 | home depot coupon | 357 |
office depot coupon | 630 | printable grocery coupon | 347 |
coupon code | 539 | dell coupon code | 340 |
expedia coupon | 509 | sears coupon | 330 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "coupon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | latë (hatchet, ticket), kupon (scrip, voucher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كوبون, قسيمة (receipt, voucher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | фиш (card, file-card), купон (crush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 优 券. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tiket, sázenka, poukaz (voucher), kupón, bon, bod (article, item, point, spot), ústřižek (snip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kupon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | voucher, kaartje (bill, filing card, note, slip, ticket), coupon, bon (receipt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kupono. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کوپن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kuponki. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | coupon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | coupon (voucher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κουπόνι (token, trading stamp), απόκομμα (ablactation, chip, clipping, cut out), τοκομερίδιο, τομομερίδιο, δελτίο (bulletin, form, ticket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תלוש (check, detached, picked, plucked, slip, stub, torn out), שובר (receipt for money, voucher, warrant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szelvény (check, cut, profile, section, segment), kupon, élelmiszerjegy (ration card). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kupon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cedola (talon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ギルド社会主義 (cookie, cooky, coup, coup d'etat, coupe, gingham, guild socialism, guillotine), クーポン券 (air conditioner, cool, cool down, cool jazz, cool-box, cooler, cooler-box, coolie, cooling down, cooling tower, cooling-off, coulomb, courier service, course), 利札 , 券 (bond, certificate, ticket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | りさつ, りふ , クーポンけ", クーポン , け" (and, authority, bayonet, blade, bond, case, certificate, circle, clock hand, concurrently, economy, emperor, health, heaven, in addition, item, matter, prefecture, range, sabre, sphere, stick-to-itiveness, sting, strength, sword, tendon, the right, ticket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 폰. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ribbag (dulse leaf, fragment of cloth, piece, scrap, shred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ouponcay cupom, talão (book, chequebook, heel, talon), bilhete (bill, fare, note, ticket). (various references) cupon (check, counterfoil, cut, length, remnant), talon (check, counterfoil, stub, talon), bon (bill, check, chit, ticket, voucher). (various references) купон (coupon roubles, coupon rubles). (various references) kupon. (various references) cupón (voucher). (various references) kupong (voucher). (various references) kupon (counterfoil), koçan (corn cob, counterfoil, slip, stub), faiz kuponu, bono (bond). (various references) talon (r). (various references) купон, відривний талон. (various references) cuống vé, vé, thực phẩm (food-stuff, nourishment, ration). (various references) cwpon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | coupon. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "coupon": couponing, couponings, coupons. (additional references) | |
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"Coupon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Choupana, compcon, compon, Cooxon, Couepia, coujon, Coulon, coupen, couponed, cupin, cupon, kupony, Oupo, poupon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "coupon" (pronounced 'Cou"pon'): Crampon, Crepon, Culpon, Shippon, Yaupon. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-n-o-o-p-u" | |
-2 letters: coon, coop, coup, poco, poon, unco, upon. | |
-3 letters: con, coo, cop, cup, noo, pun, upo. | |
-4 letters: no, nu, on, op, un, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-n-o-o-p-u" | |
+1 letter: coupons, puccoon, soupcon. | |
+2 letters: compound, puccoons, soupcons. | |
+3 letters: compounds, couponing, proconsul, pronounce. | |
+4 letters: compounded, compounder, compulsion, copulation, cornucopia, corruption, countertop, couponings, cuckoopint, decompound, occupation, proconsuls, production, pronounced, pronouncer, pronounces. | |
+5 letters: aponeurotic, cacophonous, carpogonium, compendious, compounders, compounding, compulsions, compunction, computation, conspicuous, consumption, copiousness, coproducing, copulations, cornucopian, cornucopias, corruptions, countercoup, counterplot, counterploy, counterpose, countertops, cuckoopints, liposuction, mucoprotein, muttonchops, neurotropic, noncompound, noncomputer, occupations, outcropping, outscooping, pneumococci, pococurante, proconsular, procuration, productions, pronouncers, pronouncing, prosecution, saponaceous. | |
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