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consols [ˈkɒnsɒlz kənˈsɒlz] pl n
(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) irredeemable British government securities carrying annual interest rates of two and a half or four per cent Also called bank annuities [short for consolidated stock] Translations consols pl (Brit Fin) → Konsols pl, → konsolidierte Staatsanleihen pl consols [ˈkɒnsɒlz] npl (Stock Exchange) → titoli mpl del debito consolidato consols [ˈkɒnsɒlz] npl (Stock Exchange) → titoli mpl del debito consolidato How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Mr Flower's remarks rankled particularly because it so happened that Consols were the identical investment on which he had decided. She sang Handel and Haydn to the family of evenings, and engaged in a large piece of worsted work, as if she had been born to the business and as if this kind of life was to continue with her until she should sink to the grave in a polite old age, leaving regrets and a great quantity of consols behind her--as if there were not cares and duns, schemes, shifts, and poverty waiting outside the park gates, to pounce upon her when she issued into the world again. "You're a tradesman," he told Philip, "you want to invest life in consols so that it shall bring you in a safe three per cent. |
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