certificate of deposit

1. 1.

   a debt instrument issued by a bank; usually pays interest

   SynonymsCD

   Broaderdebt instrument

   Narrowertime deposit

Questions about certificate of deposit

What does certificate of deposit mean?

certificate of deposit means "a debt instrument issued by a bank; usually pays interest".

What is another word for certificate of deposit?

Close synonyms include CD. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is certificate of deposit a common word?

certificate of deposit 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.