This page gathers the 1,494 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Finance”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 8 of 15: from “job” to “micro-retailing”.
- job verb To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- job backwards verb To reassess one's original decisions (e.g. investments) with hindsight, determining how they might have been better chosen.
- jobber noun A promoter or broker of stocks for investment.
- joint-stock company noun A company with transferable ownership interests and limited shareholder liability.
- journal noun A chronological record of payments or receipts.
- jump the gun verb To trade securities based on information that is not yet public; to trade on inside information.
- junk bond noun A bond (an instrument of debt) which is considered below "investment grade" due to a significant risk of default by the issuer. The…
- K-factor noun The ratio of the value of deferrable expenses to the value of estimated gross profits.
- k-line noun A style of financial chart used to describe price movements of a security, derivative, or currency
- kaffir noun South African mining shares
- Kagi chart noun A style of financial chart, mostly independent of time, used to track price movements and make decisions on purchasing stock.
- kangaroo adj Characterized by rapidly jumping prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices are unstable in contrast to bear and bull…
- kappa noun A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset.
- kicker noun An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
- kiddie tax noun The taxing of certain unearned income of a child at the parent's marginal rate, regardless of whether the child can be claimed as a…
- kite noun An accommodation bill (“a bill of exchange endorsed by a reputable third party acting as a guarantor, as a favour and without…
- KSH noun Kenyan shilling
- lamb noun One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.
- lambda noun The percentage change in an option value divided by the percentage change in the underlying asset's price.
- lame duck noun A person who cannot fulfill their contracts.
- lapping noun A form of fraud in which payments in the accounts are repeatedly delayed between periods, or diverted between customers, to conceal a theft.
- last in first out adj Of or pertaining to any situation where the last to arrive is the first to go, or a data structure where the most recently added item is…
- launder verb To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
- lawful money noun Any type of money that is permitted to be circulated as a medium of exchange as directed by the laws of a nation.
- lazy Susan noun Synonym of round trip (“form of barter involving selling and buying back”).
- leaseback noun A property transaction where a party sells something, then leases it from the purchaser. The seller is released from tax, depreciation, and…
- ledger noun A distributed ledger, a public financial transaction database, typically using a blockchain.
- leg noun An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
- leg out verb To dispose of a debt to avoid integrated treatment under US tax law.
- legal interest noun The amount of interest that is allowed or required to be charged by law; an interest rate determined by law.
- lender of last resort noun The institution in a financial system that acts as the provider of liquidity to a financial institution that finds itself unable to obtain…
- let something ride verb To decline to exit an investment position in expectation of continued (as opposed to new) growth.
- letter bond noun A bond that is not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and cannot be sold to the public.
- letter of comfort noun A letter that is not legally binding but provides some form of assurance about the financial position of an entity.
- letter of credit noun A document, used primarily in trade finance and issued generally by a financial institution, in which the institution promises to pay debts…
- letter of guarantee noun A document issued by a bank that ensures a beneficiary is paid if a bank customer defaults on a payment or obligation.
- lever verb To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
- leverage noun The use of borrowed funds with a contractually determined return to increase the ability to invest and earn an expected higher return, but…
- liabilities noun An amount of money that is owed and has to be paid in the future, such as tax, debt, interest, and mortgage payments.
- liability noun Any kind of debt recorded on the right-hand side of a balance sheet.
- lift verb To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
- limit down noun A condition in which the market price of a commodity has fallen by the maximum daily amount permitted by the exchange.
- limit order noun An order to buy a security at no more than, or sell at no less than, a specified price, thus not performing the transaction at all if this…
- limit up noun A condition where the price of the commodity has risen by the maximum daily amount permitted by the exchange.
- limited liability noun The liability of an owner or a partner of a company for no more capital than they have invested.
- limiting factor noun A constraint that limits the business from achieving a higher level of profitability.
- line noun A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- line item noun An item of revenue or expenditure in a budget or other financial statement or report.
- line of credit noun A credit facility under which a bank or other lender agrees to provide a client with loans of money up to an approved limit during a…
- linker noun A linked bond, one for which the principal is indexed to inflation.
- liquid adj Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
- liquid document noun A document showing a liquidated sum of money, such a cheque or promissory note.
- liquidate verb To convert (assets) into cash; to encash, to realize, to redeem.
- liquidity noun The degree of which something is in high supply and demand, making it easily convertible to cash.
- liquidity event noun A transaction that enables the owners of a company to realize the value of their investment, such as a merger, acquisition, or initial…
- liquidity pool noun A collection of financial assets consisting of cash and other assets that can be readily converted to cash at close to face value.
- liquidity provider noun A decentralized exchange user who funds a liquidity pool with tokens that they own to facilitate trading on the platform and earn passive…
- liquidize verb to convert assets into liquid (cash) form; to liquidate
- liquidized adj Of assets, liquidated.
- liquidness noun The quality of being liquid (easily sold or disposed of).
- loan noun An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
- loan officer noun A person who valuates, authorizes, or recommends approval of loan applications for individuals and businesses.
- local noun An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
- locatio et conductio noun A contract of hire. A bailment: goods delivered or property or land made available to the bailee in exchange for money or reward paid to…
- lock in noun The situation where an investor cannot trade without incurring an undesirable penalty such as taxation.
- logit noun A logistic regression, which applies such a mathematical function.
- Lombard rate noun An interest rate charged by a central bank for very short-term loans to other banks against an approved collateral.
- long verb To take a long position in.
- look down verb To decrease in value.
- lookback noun A kind of exotic option whose payoff depends on the optimal (maximum or minimum) underlying asset's price occurring over the life of the…
- loss noun The sum an entity loses on balance.
- Low Exercise Price Option noun A European call option on a share or index, with a 1 cent strike price, traded on ASX. Instead of paying an upfront premium, margin is held…
- magic of diversification noun The effective reduction of risk of a portfolio, achieved without reduction to expected returns through the combination of assets with low…
- magnet play noun The deliberate use of significant psychological price points (such as round numbers) to anticipate the behavior of other traders and to…
- mainchain noun A blockchain with one or more sidechains attached to it.
- make whole verb To provide (someone), especially under the terms of a legal judgment or an agreement, with financial compensation for lost money or other…
- makeup noun In a NIMCRUT, an amount distributed from the trust's income in subsequent years to make up for a present shortfall.
- margin verb To trade (securities etc.) on margin (collateral).
- margin call noun A request by a stockbroker or similar for a client to deposit more money in order to cover losses that have built up in open positions held…
- margin of safety noun The difference between the intrinsic value of a stock and its market price.
- marginal credit noun A method by which a merchant at home can render bills drawn upon him abroad saleable there, by associating a well-known banker's name on…
- mark to market noun Assigning a value to an asset equal to the current market price of the asset or one calculated based on related standardised assets for…
- mark to model noun A valuation or valuation method that assigns a value to an asset based on a model of its value.
- market jitters noun Feelings of uncertainty among investors regarding the current economic environment and causing them to sell their stocks and bonds.
- market maker noun A person or company that undertakes to quote both a buy and a sell price for a financial instrument.
- market order noun An instruction to a stock broker to sell stocks immediately, at whatever price reflects the current value of the stock.
- market risk noun The risk that the value of an investment will decrease due to moves in market factors.
- market timing noun The practice of making a decision of buying or selling of financial assets (often stocks) by attempting to predict when future market price…
- market value noun The price which a seller or insurer might reasonably expect to fetch for goods, services or securities on the open market.
- marzipan layer noun The stockbroking executives immediately below the partners in a firm.
- Master of the Universe noun A highly successful business person.
- matched order noun A form of fraud consisting of an order to buy or sell a stock, immediately followed by its resale to or repurchase from another broker, to…
- mature verb To reach the date when payment is due.
- maturity noun The state of a debt obligation at the end of the term of maturation thereof, once all interest and any applicable fees have accrued to the…
- maturity date noun The date on which a principal amount of a note, draft, acceptance bond, or other debt instrument becomes due or payable.
- megacap adj Having a market capitalization among the very largest.
- meltdown noun Synonym of crash (“a sudden large decline in the value of money, stocks or other assets, etc., especially one that causes additional…
- mezz adj Of or relating to mezzanine financing.
- mezzanine financing noun A form of corporate financing based on debt which is senior to common stock shares but subordinate to other equity.
- micro-retailing noun A retail model including things like small-scale pop-up shops and boutique storefronts that leverage a variety of innovative downsized…