Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Entitled to drawback or debenture; secured by debenture.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Entitled to drawback or debenture.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Entitled to drawback or debenture.

Etymologies

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debenture +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • We have not debentured anything in the last two years.

    Mayoral Debate 1994

  • I probed it and I found out that if the School Board in Peel hadn't debentured $30 million worth of their expenditures, our taxes would have gone up by 25 percent.

    A Look at Canada Incorporated 1990

  • He acknowledged that, in municipalities where many capital projects have been debentured, this could drive taxes up to unreachable levels - as the tax base would be paying for both the debenture and the depreciation of the asset.

    Orangeville Citizen 2010

  • $1. 7-million from reserves and $10-million will be debentured.

    SIMCOE - Home 2010

  • $1. 7-million from reserves and $10-million will be debentured.

    SIMCOE - Home 2010

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