zero coupon bond

1. 1.

   a bond that is issued at a deep discount from its value at maturity and pays no interest during the life of the bond; the commonest form of zero-coupon security

   Synonymszero-coupon bond

   Broaderzero-coupon securitybond

   corporation · government

Questions about zero coupon bond

What does zero coupon bond mean?

zero coupon bond means "a bond that is issued at a deep discount from its value at maturity and pays no interest during the life of the bond; the commonest form of zero-coupon security".

What is another word for zero coupon bond?

Close synonyms include zero-coupon 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 zero coupon bond a common word?

zero coupon 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.