sinking fund

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noun

a fund to extinguish an indebtedness, usually a bond issue.

Origin of sinking fund

First recorded in 1715–25

Words nearby sinking fund

sinkerball, sinkhole, Sinkiang-Uighur Autonomous Region, sink in, sinking, sinking fund, sinking spell, sinkless, sink one's teeth into, sink or swim, sink through the floor

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Example sentences from the Web for sinking fund

One way is to establish a sinking-fund which will retire a certain proportion of the bonds by lot each year.
How to Invest Money|George Garr Henry
And the certificates for which the check had been purloined were not in the sinking-fund as they should have been.
The Financier|Theodore Dreiser
In 1899 the provisions for the sinking-fund were also included.
The Government of England (Vol. I)|A. Lawrence Lowell
This Squire Western might have said, who was always afraid of the whigs sending the sinking-fund over to Hanover.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)|Augustus De Morgan

But the sinking-fund to which we chiefly refer was a system of borrowing money to pay debt.
Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, No. 421, New Series, Jan. 24, 1852|Various

British Dictionary definitions for sinking fund

sinking fund

noun

a fund accumulated out of a business enterprise's earnings or a government's revenue and invested to repay a long-term debt or meet a depreciation charge

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Cultural definitions for sinking fund

sinking fund

A fund into which companies or governments place money to redeem their bonds and other forms of indebtedness.

单词	sinking fund
释义	sinking fund SEE SYNONYMS FOR sinking fund ON THESAURUS.COM noun a fund to extinguish an indebtedness, usually a bond issue. Origin of sinking fund First recorded in 1715–25 Words nearby sinking fund sinkerball, sinkhole, Sinkiang-Uighur Autonomous Region, sink in, sinking, sinking fund, sinking spell, sinkless, sink one's teeth into, sink or swim, sink through the floor Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sinking fund One way is to establish a sinking-fund which will retire a certain proportion of the bonds by lot each year. How to Invest Money\|George Garr Henry And the certificates for which the check had been purloined were not in the sinking-fund as they should have been. The Financier\|Theodore Dreiser In 1899 the provisions for the sinking-fund were also included. The Government of England (Vol. I)\|A. Lawrence Lowell This Squire Western might have said, who was always afraid of the whigs sending the sinking-fund over to Hanover. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)\|Augustus De Morgan But the sinking-fund to which we chiefly refer was a system of borrowing money to pay debt. Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, No. 421, New Series, Jan. 24, 1852\|Various British Dictionary definitions for sinking fund sinking fund noun a fund accumulated out of a business enterprise's earnings or a government's revenue and invested to repay a long-term debt or meet a depreciation charge Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to sinking fund savings account, cache, stash, savings, stockpile, backup, funds, investment, mad money, means, provisions, reserve, resources, piggy bank Cultural definitions for sinking fund sinking fund A fund into which companies or governments place money to redeem their bonds and other forms of indebtedness. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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sinking fund

noun

Origin of sinking fund

Words nearby sinking fund

Example sentences from the Web for sinking fund

British Dictionary definitions for sinking fund

noun

Words related to sinking fund

Cultural definitions for sinking fund