gilt
Example Sentences
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Yields on U.K. government bonds tracked their U.S. peers higher, with 10-year gilt yields rose 2 basis points to last trade at 4.561%
They had restored the great chandelier, the gilt columns, the finely patterned wallpapers, installing screens where there had been stages.
From Literature
The U.K. plans to sell gilts maturing in June 2032 by programmatic tender on Tuesday, followed by an auction of October 2035 gilts on Wednesday.
—Yields on U.K. government bonds, or gilts, were little changed as markets turn calmer.
The markets already are calling the potential Scottish bonds “kilts,” a play on the word used for British bonds, named “gilts” after the gilded borders on old bond certificates.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
