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  • adjective Without a trigger.

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trigger +‎ -less

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Examples

  • It was able to ensure that the CDOs held particularly dubious BBB exposures, and pushed for, and often got, "triggerless" structures, which stripped away another protection most deals had.

    Yves Smith: Rahm Emanuel and Magnetar Capital: The Definition of Compromised 2010

  • It was able to ensure that the CDOs held particularly dubious BBB exposures, and pushed for, and often got, "triggerless" structures, which stripped away another protection most deals had.

    Rahm Emanuel and Magnetar Capital: The Definition of Compromised 2010

  • It was able to ensure that the CDOs held particularly dubious BBB exposures, and pushed for, and often got, "triggerless" structures, which stripped away another protection most deals had.

    BTDF 2010

  • Magnetar wanted its deals to be "triggerless," meaning lacking these cash-flow dams.

    BTDF 2010

  • Magnetar wanted its deals to be "triggerless," meaning lacking these cash-flow dams.

    The Big Picture Guest Author 2010

  • But triggerless deals, even as they started to fail, kept paying the lower tranche holders, including, in this case, Magnetar itself.

    Yves Smith: Rahm Emanuel and Magnetar Capital: The Definition of Compromised 2010

  • But triggerless deals, even as they started to fail, kept paying the lower tranche holders, including, in this case, Magnetar itself.

    Rahm Emanuel and Magnetar Capital: The Definition of Compromised 2010

  • Paulson's goal was to make the equity piece at bit safer, but this step made the other parts of the triggerless CDO even more dangerous for anyone who had the gumption to buy them.

    The Moral Compass Missing From 2009

  • Gavroche, who was occupied in singing, whistling, humming, running on ahead and pounding on the shutters of the shops with the butt of his triggerless pistol; paid no attention to this man.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • However, he was furious over his triggerless pistol.

    Les Miserables 2008

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