Money & Finance Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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bag-lady syndrome n. But inside, Pottruck suffers from “bag-lady syndrome,” a fear many women share that their financial security could disappear in a heartbeat, leaving them homeless, penniless and destitute. [English Money & Finance] [full cite] (Aug. 31, 2006)

bajet n. This does not explain why the government itself introduced new words like Bajet, for ‘Budget’, into the Malay language, when the word Belanjawan was once commonly used. [English-derived Malaysian Malaysia Money & Finance] [full cite] (May. 4, 2004)

baked in adj. Archipelago shares have marched steadily higher since April, when the deal was announced, from $18 per share then to about $64 as of Tuesday’s close. Some analysts have suggested this means any gains were already “baked in,” which is Wall Street parlance for “it ain’t gonna to get any better than this.” [English Money & Finance Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 14, 2006)

baked in adj. The key reason for the foreign inflow, says Chilton Thomson, a director of American Express Asset Management in London, is that “a good deal of the profit is already baked in the cake.” [English Business Money & Finance Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 20, 2006)

baked in adj. Depending on the sentiment of the day, investors can think the worst case is already baked in, and another day think things can get even worse. [English Business Money & Finance Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 20, 2006)

baked in adj. This is a merger that is accretive, substantially accretive, with revenue losses already baked in and with quite conservative cost synergies. [English Business Money & Finance Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 20, 2006)

baked in the cake adj. As a result, the futures market says a 25-basis-point hike in the federal-funds target, to 5%, at the May 10 meeting is baked in the cake. [English Business Money & Finance Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 20, 2006)

balance the baskets v. phr. Alderman at-large Paul Denaro said the accepted practice over the years has been not to fund line items properly, but to make estimates based on the previous year’s budget and then adjust the accounts as needed during the course of a given fiscal year. This practice is sometimes known as “balancing the baskets” and results in a flurry of financial transfers, typically toward the close of the fiscal year in June. [English Money & Finance] [full cite] (Jan. 29, 2007)

balloon levy n. A balloon levy is a term used to describe the practice of requesting more money than we reasonably expect to receive.…This is done because the equalized assessed value of the district is unknown, but the levy needs to be filed by the last Tuesday in December. [English Money & Finance] [full cite] (Dec. 6, 2007)

bang the books v. When I went to the field, I saw things like voucher fraud and banging the books—which means time and attendance fraud—and some of us were bitterly disappointed about that. But we rationalized that we were fighting a bigger enemy and every [organization] has fraud. [English United States Crime & Prisons Money & Finance Police] [full cite] (Oct. 6, 2004)

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