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Holiday

Any day fixed by law, custom or religion on which day-to-day business is suspended for the celebration or commemmoration of some event or public figure.

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securitisation

Financial services; General Finance

Creating a more or less standard investment instrument such as the mortgage pass-through security, by pooling assets to back the instrument. Also refers to the replacement of ...

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Astronomy; General astronomy

The alphabetic letter ("variable") used to denote the distance between the sun and the object being discussed, also called the object's heliocentric distance; in most ephemerides ...

provisional ball

Sports; Golf

When a player can't locate or find the first ball that they hit, then they play a second ball from the place, as close as they can determine, that the first ball was lost. They ...

uncollected funds

Financial services; General Finance

The amount of bank deposits in the form of checks that have not yet been paid by the banks on which the checks are drawn.

US Treasury bond

Financial services; General Finance

US government debt with a maturity of more than 10 years.

mass start

Sports;

events such as road races, cross-country races and criteriums in which all contestants leave the starting line at the same time.

sovereign risk

Financial services; General Finance

The risk that a central bank will impose foreign exchange regulations that will reduce or negate the value of FX contracts. Also refers to the risk of government default on a loan ...

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