yield curve

English

Noun

yield curve (plural yield curves)

  1. (finance) The relation between the interest rate (or cost of borrowing) and the time to maturity of the debt for a given borrower in a given currency.
  2. A style of yoga based on a flow between sequential poses and coordinated breathing. [from 20th c.]
    • 2020, Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind, Bloomsbury (2023), page 66:
      His business was clairvoyance. You looked at the yield curve arching and slumping like an inchworm making its inefficient progress, and it told you everything you needed to know.

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