| 释义 |
IOUIOU /ˌaɪ əʊ ˈjuː $ -oʊ-/ noun [countable] informal   IOUOrigin: 1700-1800 Representing I owe you - Essentially, a bond is an IOU.
- There was anger among farmers, who were being given IOUs instead of cash for their crops.
- A banker's acceptance starts off as a bill of exchange, which is itself a form of IOU.
- As we will discuss later in more depth, bonds are IOUs that pay a specific rate of inter-est.
- But the government could issue IOUs with zero coupons to shareholders.
- Essentially, a bond is an IOU.
- Federal workers have been left with IOUs to fund their retirement years.
- There is no reason why children could not implement their own economies, swapping tokens and IOUs.
money that someone owes► debt money that you owe, especially a large amount: · Debt is one of the main social problems of our time.debt of: · The government now has debts of $2.5 billion.pay off/repay a debt (=pay all the money that you owe): · It took us three years to pay off all our debts.write off a debt (=agree that it will not and does not need to be repaid): · He protected less profitable state farms by writing off their debts.foreign debt (=money owed by foreign countries): · To pay the interest on our foreign debt, we will have to import less.a bad debt (=a debt that will never be repaid): · Lenders must try and protect themselves against bad debts. ► overdraft an amount of money that you owe to your bank when you have spent more money that you had in your bank account: · I've already got an enormous overdraft.a £100/$1500 etc overdraft: · When he left college, he had a $3000 overdraft. ► liabilities the debts that a company, government etc is legally responsible to pay - used especially in legal and business contexts: · The chart shows the movements in the company's liabilities and assets during a particular trading period.· US external net liabilities rose throughout the 1980s. ► borrowings the total amount of money that a company has borrowed and owes - used in business contexts: · Borrowings at the end of the year amounted to nearly $27 million.· The company was now so large it could increase its borrowings to almost any figure it chose. ► IOU a note that you write saying that you owe someone money or that you will pay for something later - often used by journalists as an informal word for a legal agreement in which one business or organization owes another money: · Essentially, a bond is an IOU.give somebody an IOU: · There was anger among farmers, who were being given IOUs instead of cash for their crops. a note that you sign to say that you owe someone some money |