bond rating

1. 1.

   an evaluation by a rating company of the probability that a particular bond issue will default

   “the bonds of highest quality are said to have bond ratings of AAA”

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Questions about bond rating

What does bond rating mean?

bond rating means "an evaluation by a rating company of the probability that a particular bond issue will default".

Is bond rating a common word?

bond rating is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.