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Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Stock Exchange
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
DEF

eurobonds : Printed debt instruments, mostly in bearer form, initially offered entirely or to a large extent outside the country of the borrower or issued by a supranational organization, which are free of any governmental regulations, provide for payment of principal and interest free of withholding tax and are marketed internationally.

OBS

eurobond; Eurobond: The "euro" part of the name derives from the fact that Europe was the first place where such bonds (normally denominated in dollars) were sold. Not to be confused with bonds denominated in euros.

OBS

eurobond: term in the plural form (eurobonds) and definition standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1993.

Key term(s)
  • euro-bond
  • eurobonds
  • euro-bonds

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Bourse
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
DEF

eurobonds : Titres de créance imprimés au porteur, offert à l'origine en tout ou en partie en dehors du pays de l'emprunteur ou lancé par une organisation supranationale; ils ne sont soumis à aucune réglementation gouvernementale; le paiement du capital et des intérêts est exempt d'impôt à la source, et ils sont placés sur le marché international.

OBS

Dans l'usage actuel, le préfixe «euro» n'indique pas nécessairement une référence à l'Europe.

OBS

eurobond : terme au pluriel (eurobonds) et définition normalisés par l'Organisation internationale de normalisation (ISO) en 1993.

Key term(s)
  • euro-obligations
  • eurobonds

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inversiones
  • Bolsa de valores
  • Gestión presupuestaria y financiera
DEF

Bono en dólares a largo plazo emitido en el exterior. Con las restricciones impuestas a la inversión en el extranjero en la década de los sesenta, las corporaciones estadounidenses empezaron a obtener fondos en el exterior para sus afiliadas en el extranjero; asimismo, afiliadas de compañías no estadounidenses obtuvieron dinero prestado en el exterior. Con la desaparición de las restricciones de capital en el año 1971 disminuyó la importancia de los eurobonos como fuente de financiación para las operaciones en el exterior.

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Record 2 2023-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Finance
OBS

The Credit Counselling Society is an accredited non-profit charity that helps Canadians with their money. … [Its] mission is [to provide] free credit counselling, low cost debt solutions, and education to Canadians.

Key term(s)
  • Credit Counseling Society

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Finances
Key term(s)
  • Credit Counseling Society

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos, unidades administrativas y comités
  • Finanzas
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Record 3 2017-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
OBS

[The Credit Counselling Services of Cochrane District offers] credit counselling and debt consolidation help in Timmins and Cochrane District... [Its] professional credit counselling experts in Timmins [help to] overcome... debt problems. Whether debt consolidation is the preferable option or budgeting skills for debt management, [its] credit counselling experts [get customers the help needed] to become debt free.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière

Spanish

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Record 4 2013-05-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

A conveyance by the grantee under a former conveyance to the grantor in such conveyance. (Ballentine, p. 1068)

CONT

Reconveyance... takes place where a mortgage debt is paid off, and the mortgaged property is conveyed again to the mortgagor or his representatives free from the mortgage debt.(Jowitt, p. 1508)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
DEF

Servitude resulting from inability to pay debts. Translation: péonage. The word péon appeared in French before 1880 as a borrowing from Spanish. Petit Robert (p. 1397) gives "paysan pauvre (qui n’a pas de cheval); the notion of poverty can be captured in one term.

OBS

A syntagma that uses the noun debt and the derivative peonage (peon, noun, borrowing from Spanish; -age, combining form). The term refers to the poor agricultural workers of Brazil who are semi-slaves of the landowners.

CONT

As late as 1960, millions of workers were subject to so-called debt peonage: forced to buy food and other necessities from their employers at prices that exceeded their wages, they remained in penury forever.

OBS

This social neologism is a pleonasm, since the accepted meaning of peonage incorporates the notion of semi-slavery due to inability to pay debts. Random House gives for peonage : 2. The practice of holding persons in servitude or partial slavery, as to work off a debt.(p. 1677). Debt peonage, therefore, will join free gift among the many pleonasms in our language.

Key term(s)
  • peonage

French

Domaine(s)
  • Néologie et emprunts

Spanish

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Record 6 2005-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans
  • National and International Economics
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
CONT

Grants reduce the probability of poor countries experiencing debt distress. As we are seeing in the cases of Niger and Ethiopia, countries’ debt levels remain at unsustainable levels, despite HIPC [Heavily Indebted Poor Countries] debt relief and additional "topping-up" assistance. Grants free up scarce public resources, which would otherwise have been used to pay off outstanding loan commitments. These resources can be used to fund the kind of productive investments... such as infrastructure improvements and agricultural programs, which contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction.

CONT

On April 20th Ethiopia finally reached Completion Point under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative and received ’topping-up’ debt relief.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts
  • Économie nationale et internationale
  • Coopération et développement économiques
CONT

Pour les pays qui ont atteint le point d'achèvement, mais continuent d'être surendettés en raison de facteurs exogènes, la communauté internationale peut envisager d'accorder un allègement de dette complémentaire («topping-up») à titre exceptionnel, au-delà du montant engagé au point de décision.

CONT

Si le cours des produits de base qu'il exporte a baissé depuis le calcul de l'allègement de la dette, un pays peut obtenir un «complément» d'allègement de la dette au «point d'achèvement», comme cela a récemment été le cas du Burkina Faso.

OBS

allègement : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 7 2002-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
OBS

Buying up existing shares and giving holders a free issue of new stock, paying for this by taking on enough debt to repulse most raiders

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse

Spanish

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Record 8 1996-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Phraseology
  • Government Accounting
CONT

The goal of this budget is to free the economy for more job creating growth by steadily reducing the burden of deficits and debt.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Phraséologie
  • Comptabilité publique
CONT

L'objectif de ce budget est de libérer l'économie pour qu'elle puisse croître et créer davantage d'emplois, en réduisant progressivement le fardeau lié aux déficits et à la dette.

Spanish

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