debenture
Meaning of debenture
noun
a long-term security yielding a fixed rate of interest, issued by a company and secured against assets.
late Middle English (denoting a voucher issued by a royal household, giving the right to claim payment for goods or services): from Latin debentur ‘are owing’ (from debere ‘owe’), used as the first word of a certificate recording a debt. The current sense dates from the mid 19th century.
Information about debenture
- It is a name.
- The plural form of debenture is: debentures.
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Hyphenation of debenture
deben-ture
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- debenture is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Translation of debenture
- Italian: obbligazione
- Spanish: obligación
- French: obligation
- German: Obligation
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