short-dated

1. 1.

   of a gilt-edged security; having less than 5 years to run before redemption

   Similarshort

   United Kingdom

Questions about short-dated

What does short-dated mean?

short-dated means "of a gilt-edged security; having less than 5 years to run before redemption".

How many syllables are in short-dated?

short-dated has 3 syllables and divides as short--da-ted under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is short-dated a common word?

short-dated 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.