treasury bill

1. 1.

   a short-term obligation that is not interest-bearing (it is purchased at a discount); can be traded on a discount basis for 91 days

   SynonymsT-bill

   BroaderTreasury

Questions about treasury bill

What does treasury bill mean?

treasury bill means "a short-term obligation that is not interest-bearing (it is purchased at a discount); can be traded on a discount basis for 91 days".

What is another word for treasury bill?

Close synonyms include T-bill. 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 treasury bill a common word?

treasury bill 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.