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

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moneyball n. a derisive name for a sport (especially baseball) in which skill and fans seem secondary to money, esp. a sport in which teams, hoping to secure winning seasons and the resulting broadcasting and merchandising incomes, negotiate expensive contracts with desirable players. (posted Jul. 7, 2004) [full entry…]

monoline n. a company specializing in a single type of financial business, such as credit cards, home mortgages, or a sole class of insurance. (posted Aug. 25, 2005) [full entry…]

natural capitalism n. an economic theory or practice which assigns a financial cost to the use, maintenance, abuse, or depletion of natural resources and ecosystems. (posted Jul. 18, 2004) [full entry…]

pay-for n. in pay-as-you-go (or PAYGO) budgeting, a spending cut or tax increase that covers the budget for a piece of legislation. (posted Mar. 14, 2007) [full entry…]

pinhook v. to speculate in race horses. (posted Mar. 7, 2006) [full entry…]

plastax n. a per-unit fee levied on the use of plastic bags. (posted Jul. 19, 2005) [full entry…]

price of carbon n. the going rate for petroleum-related pollution-emission rights or credits, which are traded on an international market. (posted Jun. 9, 2004) [full entry…]

redwash n. a series of repeated victories of the Ferrari Formula 1 car racing team, with driver Michael Schumacher, to the exclusion of almost all other teams. (posted Jul. 15, 2004) [full entry…]

refi n. a refinancing of a mortgage or loan. (posted Jul. 19, 2005) [full entry…]

rent-a-cow attrib. indicating a situation in which livestock are deceitfully used to make a residential or commercial property qualify as a working farm or ranch in order to benefit from an agricultural tax provision or subsidy. (posted Sep. 14, 2007) [full entry…]

sale-manageback n. a financial arrangement in which a property is sold, then managed by its former owner for a cut of profits. (posted Mar. 16, 2005) [full entry…]

scratch and dent loan n. a loan or mortgage that has become a risky debt investment, especially one secured with minimal documentation or made by a borrower who has missed payments. (posted Aug. 23, 2007) [full entry…]

silo other. attributively silo and as an adjective siloed, kept separate from similar items, especially in the case of funds, a budget line item, a department, etc.; noun, something that is kept separate or compartmentalized; verb, to keep separate, to stove-pipe. (posted Dec. 9, 2004) [full entry…]

smile n. a line, graphed on a parabolic or bowl-shaped curve, that represents a risk or return relationship in investment markets. (posted May. 27, 2004) [full entry…]

smurfing n. the making of a series of small transactions to escape the regulatory notice a single larger transaction might attract. (posted Aug. 3, 2004) [full entry…]

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