Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
- floater
- a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)
- royalty
- payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property
- giro account
- an account at a post office that can be used in similar ways to an account at a bank
- freehold
- tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life
- purse strings
- financial resources or support
- slush fund
- a fund for buying votes or bribing public officials
- plantation
- an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)
- proprietorship certificate
- a certificate showing who is responsible in an individually owned business
- physical value
- cost of reproducing physical property minus various allowances (especially depreciation)
- palimony
- support paid by one half of an unmarried partnership after the relationship ends
- landlord's lien
- lien on a tenant's property for the satisfaction of unpaid rent or property damage; the landlord is given the status of a preferred creditor with regard to the tenant's property
- undercharge
- a price that is too low
- deep pockets
- (plural) a source of substantial wealth
- crown
- an English coin worth 5 shillings
- peanuts
- an insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount
- offsetting balance
- a minimum credit balance that a bank may require a borrower to keep on deposit as a condition for granting a loan; a common requirement for establishing a line of credit at a bank
- bank loan
- a loan made by a bank; to be repaid with interest on or before a fixed date
- white elephant
- a valuable possession whose upkeep is excessively expensive
- overage
- a surplus or excess of money or merchandise that is actually on hand and that exceeds expectations
- borrowing cost
- the cost of borrowing something
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