debenturenoun [ C ]
uk/dɪˈben.tʃər/us/dɪˈben.tʃɚ/specializeda type of loan, often used by companies to raise money, that is paid back over a long period of time and at a fixed rate of interest
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Borrowing & lending
- be in the hole idiom
- borrow
- bounce
- call it quits idiom
- call sth in
- credit
- credit risk
- fire sale
- gearing
- leveraged buyout
- liability
- liquidate
- microcredit
- national debt
- pay
- put sth up
- reschedule
- slate
- term
- tick
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Examples from literature
- In several of the cities of Holland there were people who had subscribed for only one debenture, because they thought men of their own blood were living in South Africa.
- She could not for a fortune have defined the difference between a debenture and a share.
- Stocks, "common" or "preferred," bonds and debentures, floated through his mind.
- The owners of these debentures are in fact joint capitalists with the nominal owner of the business.
- The soldiers, adventures, and debenture holders agreed at length to accept two-thirds of their land, and to give up the other third, and on this arrangement, by slow degrees, the country settled down.