discounted

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The mainstay has been corporate securities, rediscounted by the central bank, based on a list of favoured firms.

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2012

Senator Glass put in that provision because he claimed large banks were now hoarding $8,500,000,000 in such assets, which should be rediscounted before other securities were offered as collateral.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, against tens of thousands of John Homeman mortgages which it had rediscounted, H. L. D. B. would put out hundreds of millions worth of bonds which did not exist before.

From Time Magazine Archive

The act also provides that six months' maturities of paper drawn and used for agricultural purposes or based on live stock may be rediscounted.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur

While but few of the Boston banks have rediscounted with us, almost all have intimated that should occasion arise they would do so.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur