subordinated

subordinated
subordinate, subordinated, subordination
Debts or claims that have a lower status or priority than other debts or claims are subordinate. For example, creditor A may agree in a subordination agreement to have its claims on the cash flow or on the assets of a borrower lower in priority than ( i.e., subordinate to) the claims to that cash flow or collateral by creditor B. In finance and accounting, the term also refers to debts that include provisions making them subordinate to other liabilities. For example, a bond issue may, by contractual agreement, be subordinate to all other bonds issued by a company. American Banker Glossary
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A claim ranked lower in priority than other claims. common stock claims are always subordinated to debt. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary

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subordinated sub‧or‧di‧nat‧ed [səˈbɔːdneɪtd ǁ -ɔːr-] adjective
subordinated bond/​debt/​loan etc FINANCE a bond, debt etc which will be repaid only after all other debts and loans have been paid if the borrower gets into financial difficulty:

• The company has $230 million in bank debt and $285 million in subordinated debt.

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subordinated UK US /səˈbɔːdɪnət/ adjective [before noun] (also subordinate) FINANCE
► used to describe a loan that will be paid back after other loans, if the person borrowing money gets into financial difficulty: »

Franklin Auto Loan Funding issued senior and subordinated certificates to three institutional investors.

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The group has approximately $41 million of subordinated debt outstanding.

→ Compare MEZZANINE(Cf. ↑mezzanine), SENIOR(Cf. ↑senior)

Financial and business terms. 2012.

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