haircut
/ˈhɛə(ɹ)kʌt/
haircut noun: the act of cutting of the hair, often done professionally by a barber, hair stylist, or beautician.
Noun
haircut (plural haircuts)
- The act of cutting of the hair, often done professionally by a barber, hair stylist, or beautician.
- The style into which the hair is cut.
- A partial loss, financially: thus, in a bankruptcy proceeding, the proportional reduction in the debt that will be paid to each creditor (based on an evaluation of the total debt owed and the total assets of the debtor); among investors, the negative return on investment from a losing proposition.
- to take a haircut
- And he needs to make sure that any American bank that was involved in loans to Asia, and now wants to share in the I.M.F. bailout, takes a haircut. And I'm not just talking about a trim.1998 January 17, Thomas L. Friedman, “Haircut Time”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- The difference between the value of a loan and the value of its collateral.
- Government securities having high credit rating such as Treasury bonds and Treasury bills are usually subjected to 1% to 10% haircut, while for more risky, volatile or illiquid securities, such as a stock option, the haircut might be as high as 30%.2012, Samuel N. Cohen et al., editors, Stochastic Processes, Finance and Control […] , World Scientific, →ISBN, page 190
- Synonyms:
- margin
Verb
haircut (third-person singular simple present haircuts, present participle haircutting, simple past and past participle haircutted)
- To reduce the value assigned to an asset.
- But whereas in the past it has been possible for a brokerage house to credit a customer’s account for 100 percent of the value of a commodity, we have required that that value be haircutted significantly.1981, Joint Agency Reports on Silver Markets: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-Seventh...
- That is because the future stream of income is discounted to present value at perhaps as much as two to three percentage points above the prime rate and then haircutted by as high as 33½%.1983, Harold W. Gourgues, Jr., Financial Planning Handbook: A Portfolio of Strategies and Applications, New York Institute of Finance, →ISBN, page 249
haircut meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
haircut in Hindi
- बाल कटवाना, बाल कटवाएँ
haircut in Tamil
- முடி வெட்டுதல், ஹேர்கட்
haircut in Marathi
- केस कापणे, केसांची कापणी, केस कापणी
haircut in Urdu
- حجامت کا انداز, حجامت
More languagesFewer languages
- haircut in Bengali
- চুল কাটা cul kaṭa
- haircut in Telugu
- క్షవరము kṣavaramu, క్షౌరము kṣauramu
- haircut in Malayalam
- മുടി മുറിക്കൽ, ഹെയർകട്ട്, മുടി വെട്ടൽ
- haircut in Kannada
- ಕ್ಷೌರ, ಕೂದಲು ಕತ್ತರಿಸುವಿಕೆ
- haircut in Punjabi
- ਵਾਲ ਕੱਟਣਾ, ਵਾਲ ਕੱਟਣ, ਵਾਲ ਕੱਟਣੇ
- haircut in Gujarati
- વાળ કાપવું, વાળ કાપવાના
- haircut in Odia
- କେଶ କାଟିବା, କେଶ କଟାଇବା
- haircut in Sanskrit
- केशकर्तन keśakartana
- haircut in Arabic
- حَلَاقَة ḥalāqa
- haircut in Thai
- การตัดผม
- haircut in Vietnamese
- cắt tóc, hớt tóc
Examples of haircut in a sentence
- In the spring of 2012 Greece's public debt did, eventually, take a haircut, confirming that an unpayable debt will receive a haircut whatever the dogmas of European officials.2016, Yanis Varoufakis, And the Weak Suffer What They Must? […] , Hachette UK, →ISBN:
- The CFTC also permits FCMs to accept non-cash, non-security assets, but these must be "haircutted"--to 80 percent of their value.1984, A Review and Evaluation of Federal Margin Regulations, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, page 83:
- DCC Credit Rating of First Priority CE Provider or Counterparty; or Cash/Cash Equivalent (which is not Haircutted)2003, Code of Federal Regulations, title 12 (part 900 to end), Washington, D.C.: Office of the Federal Register; U.S. Government Printing...
- The collateral value would then be haircutted by 140 percent, 40 EUR/140 percent= 28.6 EUR.2006, Laurent Balthazar, From Basel 1 to Basel 3: The Integration of State-of-the-Art Risk Modeling in Banking Regulation, Palgrave...
Synonyms of haircut
Forms of haircut
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | haircuts |
| alternative form | hair cut |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | haircuts |
| present participle | haircutting |
| past participle | haircutted |
| past | haircutted |
Origin of haircut
From hair + cut.
Words formed from haircut
- bob haircut
- bowl haircut
- broccoli haircut
- can I speak to the manager haircut
- Chelsea haircut
- crock haircut
- haircut band
- haircutted
- I want to speak to the manager haircut
- Karen haircut
- meet me at McDonald's haircut
- mushroom haircut
- never ask the barber if you need a haircut
- not here for a haircut
- pudding basin haircut
- shave and a haircut
- two-block haircut
Phrases with haircut
Questions about haircut
- What does haircut mean?
- Haircut means the act of cutting of the hair, often done professionally by a barber, hair stylist, or beautician.
- What is haircut in Hindi?
- Haircut in Hindi is बाल कटवाना, बाल कटवाएँ. See Haircut meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use haircut in a sentence?
- In the spring of 2012 Greece's public debt did, eventually, take a haircut, confirming that an unpayable debt will receive a haircut whatever the dogmas of European officials.
- What part of speech is haircut?
- Haircut can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce haircut?
- Haircut is pronounced /ˈhɛə(ɹ)kʌt/.
- What is the plural of haircut?
- The plural of haircut is haircuts.
Words near haircut in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: haircut (page history and authors); haircut (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); haircut (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); haircut (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); haircut (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); haircut (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); haircut (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); haircut (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); haircut (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); haircut (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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