Usually means: Corporate loan secured by reputation.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. debenture: Merriam-Webster
  2. debenture: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. debenture: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. debenture: Collins English Dictionary
  5. debenture: Vocabulary.com
  6. Debenture, debenture: Wordnik
  7. debenture: Wiktionary
  8. debenture: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. debenture: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. debenture: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. debenture: Dictionary.com
  12. debenture: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Debenture (sport), Debenture: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Debenture: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. debenture: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. debenture: Rhymezone
  17. Debenture: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. debenture: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. debenture: FreeDictionary.org
  20. debenture: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. debenture: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. debenture: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. debenture: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. debenture: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. debenture: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  5. debenture: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  9. DEBENTURE: Accounting Glossary
  10. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  11. Debenture: bizterms.net
  12. Debenture: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  13. Debenture: Moneyterms
  14. Debenture: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  15. debenture: Finance-Glossary.com
  16. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  17. Debenture: Investopedia
  18. debenture: Legal dictionary
  19. debenture: Financial dictionary
  20. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  21. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  22. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. debenture: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A certificate that certifies an amount of money owed to someone; a certificate of indebtedness.
noun:  (obsolete) A certificate of a loan made to the government; a government bond.
noun:  (finance, US) A type of debt instrument secured only by the general credit or promise to pay of the issuer, not involving any physical assets or collateral, now commonly issued by large, well established corporations with adequate credit ratings.
noun:  (finance, UK) A document granting lenders a charge over a borrower’s physical assets, giving them a means to collect a debt, as part of a secured loan.

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