couponn.
/ˈkuːpɒn/, U.S. /ˈk(j)uˌpɑn/ 1. A separable certificate or ticket, of which a series are attached to, and form part of, certain original or principal certificates, in order that they may be severally detached and given up as required.
a. One of a set of certificates attached to a bond running for a term of years, to be detached and presented as successive payments of interest become due to the holder; a separable dividend-warrant. Also transferred, the nominal rate of interest redeemable at a given time on a bond, fixed-interest security, etc.; also attributive.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > coupon or warrant
coupon1822
talon1882
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > return from capital or investment > interest > rate of
coupon1822
APR1972
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [adjective] > profitable > relating to interest
three per cent1753
interest-bearing1894
annualized1906
coupon1949
1822 Cohen Compendium of Finance 19 These 212,000 rentes [of the City of Paris] are made to bearer, and divided in coupons of 250 francs each.
1836 Stock Exch. Official List. Oct. 28 Spanish Bonds 5 per Cent. Consolidated..Ditto ex Coupons.
1839 J. J. Wilkinson Law of Public Funds 216–17 Dividends on Russian bonds..are payable half-yearly..on presenting the dividend-warrants (coupons)..and on some Dutch bonds by delivery of the coupons.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) (at cited word) In the United States, the certificates of State stocks drawing interest are accompanied by coupons, which are small tickets attached to the certificates.
1874 Act 37 & 38 Vict. c. 3 §5 The coupons for interest annexed to any debenture shall also pass by delivery.
1949 Pract. Investment (Investors' Chron.) ii. 28 ‘Redemption Yield Tables’..are grouped in sections, covering a range of interest rates—say from 11/ 2 to 5 per cent in ‘steps’ of 1/ 4 per cent. (These are the ‘coupon’, or interest rates on securities.)
1952 Economist 27 Sept. 781/2 The stock..carries the high coupon rate of 5 per cent.
1963 H. D. Berman Stock Exchange (ed. 4) x. 84 The surtax payer must look for a low coupon loan with a comparatively short date (‘coupon’ is used as an abbreviation for ‘interest rate’).
1973 Daily Tel. 3 Mar. 19/1 A wholly-owned subsidiary of Imperial Chemical Industries..is to raise £10¼ million on the Swiss capital market. The loan will have a coupon of 6 p.c.
1982 Times 15 Sept. 18/6 Coupons on United Kingdom municipal authority fixed interest bonds rose by up to one quarter point at par pricing.
b. One of a series of conjoined tickets issued together, which entitle the holder to certain services rendered in separate instalments, after each of which the corresponding coupon is detached and given up. They are largely issued by Excursion Agencies, so as to facilitate the prepayment in a singled fixed sum of the travelling and hotel expenses of a tourist, who then, instead of paying money, gives up the corresponding coupon at each stage of his tour. The name and system of Coupons was introduced by the late Mr. Thomas Cook in 1864.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > document which permits or authorizes > ticket > joined series of
coupon1864
1864 Cook's Excursionist 25 Apr. (Suppl.) The [railway] tickets are..in the shape of small books of coupons.
1868 Cook's Excursionist 1 July The Hotel accommodation coupons..constitute quite a new feature in tourist programmes.
c. attributive and in other combinations; coupon-clipper n. U.S. a person who has a large number of coupon bonds from which to detach the coupons.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > coupon or warrant > holder of coupon
coupon-clipper1887
1860 Ann. Rep. Treasury (U.S.) 480 Such coupon stock..may be assigned and transferred by the delivery of the certificates.
1861 U.S. Statutes XII. 259 The Secretary of the Treasury..is authorized to issue coupon bonds, or registered bonds, or treasury notes.
1880 C. J. Stromberg (title) Coupon ticketing points from or via Chicago,..for the use of patrons of the Stromberg improved coupon ticket.
1887 C. B. George 40 Years on Rail xii. 253 It was to General Ticket Agent Marshall, of the Lake Shore Railroad, that the idea of coupon tickets..first occurred.
1887 Nation (N.Y.) 2 June 460/3 The select few of the coupon-clippers may escape it [i.e. being in debt].
1956 Ann. Reg. 1955 80 Mr. Harris's Budget was criticized..as providing ‘a guaranteed annual wage for coupon clippers’.
2.
a. A form, ticket, part of a printed advertisement, etc., entitling the holder to a gift or discount, etc., or designed to be filled up by an intending user or purchaser and forwarded to the advertiser for information, goods, etc. Also attributive. (See also cigarette coupon n. at cigarette n. Compounds 2.)
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > coupon
coupon1906
1906 Westm. Gaz. 19 Sept. 4/3 I mean to forbid the use of all coupon goods at my house.
1914 John Bull 5 Dec. p. ii By sending this Coupon with P.O. for 2/6..the holder is entitled to receive a..Gold Nibbed Fountain Pen.
1915 Daily Express 27 Jan. 6 In addition, a Profit-Sharing Coupon and a Composite Flag of the Allies are enclosed in every packet [of cigarettes].
1928 Sunday Express 19 Aug. 1/4 Newsagents as well as advertisers are perturbed by the menace of the multiple coupon.
1928 Sunday Express 19 Aug. 1/4 In Manchester many agents cut out the coupons for their customers and sell the couponless copies in bulk to waste-paper merchants.
1961 Guardian 15 Dec. 1/3 Kensitas..reintroduced coupons... Hitherto Gallagher has not engaged in coupon trading.
b. spec. An entry-form for a competition, esp. for a football pool (see football coupon n. at football n. Compounds 3). Also attributive.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > ticket
blank1567
lottery ticket1676
benefit-ticket1694
horse1726
premium bond1820
coupon1909
scratch-off1985
1909 Daily Chron. 26 Feb. 4/4 Amending them [sc. the Lottery Laws] with a view..to checking coupon-competitions in newspapers.
1918 Methodist Times 5 Dec. 9/1 The amendment of the Gambling Laws, particularly in relation to football coupons, press competitions, [etc.].
1918 Methodist Times 5 Dec. 9/1 Will you advocate the suppression of professional and coupon betting?
1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end xxii. 384 The Pools' promoters..distributed coupons.
3. One of a series of tickets entitling the holder to a share of rationed food, clothing, etc. Hence coupon-free adj. obtainable without coupons.
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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun] > by government or authority > card or coupon of entitlement
ration book1845
meat card1870
ration card1870
ration ticket1871
food card1896
sugar card1917
coupon1918
meat coupon1918
clothing book1943
clothing coupon1943
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [adjective] > assigned or allotted > rationed by coupons > not
uncouponed1918
coupon-free1941
1918 Times 25 Feb. 9/5 You must not tear off meat coupons yourself. This duty rests with the retailer.
1918 Times 25 Feb. 9/5 Only three coupons each week of a meat card can be used for butcher's meat. The fourth or any of the coupons can be used to buy bacon, tinned meats, poultry, and game.
1918 Times 26 Feb. 7/6 A whole coupon [at the Express Dairy] entitled one to have stewed steak and carrots, two sausages, or cold ham and tongue.
1918 Ministry of Food, National Rationing 4 July , §6 If you hold sugar coupons and not a sugar ticket, you may choose the retailer with whom you wish to register for sugar... § 7 Lard will be rationed separately by means of the brown set of coupons.
1941 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Dec. 614/1 (advt.) Books are tax- and coupon-free.
1943 Punch 31 Mar. 259/1 There is no objection to a husband and wife sharing their clothing coupons.
1946 ‘Tackline’ You met such Nice Girls xiii. 144 It is very strange..why R.N. officers are so much meaner with their clothing-coupons than R.N.V.R. officers.
1947 News Chron. 11 Apr. (advt.) Coupon free brand new nylon.
1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway vii. 188 I ought to get another suit, but there never seem to be any coupons.
1959 J. Braine Vodi vii. 116 They found his father checking sweet coupons when they entered.
4. A recommendation given by a party leader to a parliamentary candidate. Also attributive, as coupon candidate, coupon election, coupon majority.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > election by specific method
prox1669
shouting1679
acclamation1885
coupon election1918
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > selection of candidates > recommendation by party leader
coupon1918
ticket of leave1918
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > candidate > type of
vote collector1888
coupon candidate1918
primarian1918
yellow dog1927
1918 Methodist Times 5 Dec. 7/2 Men whose tongues are tied by a pledge before they get their ‘ticket-of-leave’, or ‘coupon’, as it is contemptuously called, are being chosen for this English Reichstag by a secret cabal sitting in darkness. ‘Half-coupon men’ is the name bestowed on those who have not got the blessing, but are piteously bleating for it.
1919 G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House Pref. in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War p. xxxii Provided the leader will make their seats safe for them by the process which was called, in derisive reference to the war rationing system, ‘giving them the coupon’.
1919 G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House Pref. in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War p. xxxii The electorate..cast out all the coupon candidates at the earliest bye-elections.
1919 National Rev. Feb. 690 Mr. Lloyd George and his principal colleagues were finally ‘gingered up’ into giving the required pledges, which were infinitely more useful to Coalition candidates than Coalition ‘coupons’.
1920 H. Storey Case against Lloyd George Coalition 8 The Government..issued recommendations (it may be remembered that they were called ‘coupons’) to all candidates who accepted its pledge.
1925 F. W. Hirst From Adam Smith to Snowden 64 The Coalition continued with a huge ‘coupon’ majority ready to extend protective measures.
1932 J. A. Spender & C. Asquith Life of H. H. Asquith I. iv. 51 The ‘Coupon’ election of 1918.
1932 J. A. Spender & C. Asquith Life of H. H. Asquith II. lv. 316 The certificate took the form of a letter signed by the two leaders (which Asquith immortalised by dubbing it the ‘coupon’).
1945 Ann. Reg. 1944 92 The executive of the Labour Party..rejected uncompromisingly the idea of a ‘coupon’ election after the 1918 model.
Compounds
coupon ticket n. U.S. a ticket with coupons or a coupon attached, as a through railroad ticket with a coupon for each of the lines traversed, or a theatre ticket with a reserved seat coupon.
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1887 C. B. George 40 Years on Rail xii. 253 It was to General Ticket Agent Marshall, of the Lake Shore Railroad, that the idea of coupon tickets..first occurred.
Draft additions March 2019
Scottish colloquial. A person's face or facial expression.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [noun]
anlethOE
cheerc1225
countenancec1330
facec1330
visage1338
frontc1374
vult?a1400
maid facec1450
walte1524
facies1565
museau1816
shade1817
coupon1962
1962 B. McGhee Cut & Run iii. 27 He grabbed a pint measure from the bar, smashed it, and jabbed the broken edge at Ben's ‘coupon’.
2000 M. Fitt But n Ben A-go-go xi. 90 The weel-kent coupon o the Taiwanese virtual explorer..keeked oot intermittently fae the city's television screens.
2017 @jimmymcgrory67 28 Sept. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Look at the coupon on him, it would have been worse after last night's game.
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coupon
coupon v. (transitive) to subject (goods) to rationing by means of coupons.extracted from couponnedadj.<
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