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debtlike

debtlike adjective: resembling debt.

Adjective

debtlike (comparative more debtlike, superlative most debtlike)

  1. Resembling debt.
    • Before the crisis, perhaps 70 percent of demand came from practitioners of convertible arbitrage, who aimed to profit from the interplay of the debtlike and equitylike characteristics of the securities.2009 April 7, “A Window Opens for Stock Issues”, in New York Times

Forms of debtlike

comparativemore debtlike
superlativemost debtlike

Origin of debtlike

From debt + -like.

Questions about debtlike

What does debtlike mean?
Debtlike means resembling debt.
What part of speech is debtlike?
Debtlike is an adjective.

Words near debtlike in the dictionary

  1. debtees
  2. debtholder
  3. debtholders
  4. debtless
  5. debtlessness
  6. debtlike
  7. debtor
  8. debtor in possession
  9. debtors
  10. debtors in possession
  11. debtors' prison

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