high-yield bond

1. 1.

   a (speculative) bond with a credit rating of BB or lower; issued for leveraged buyouts and other takeovers by companies with questionable credit

   Synonymsjunk bond

   Broaderbond

Questions about high-yield bond

What does high-yield bond mean?

high-yield bond means "a (speculative) bond with a credit rating of BB or lower; issued for leveraged buyouts and other takeovers by companies with questionable credit".

What is another word for high-yield bond?

Close synonyms include junk bond. 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 high-yield bond a common word?

high-yield bond 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.