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Meaning of CDO | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Initialism of collateralized debt obligation.
  2. Initialism of Cagayan de Oro.
  3. Initialism of command duty officer.
  4. Initialism of chief data officer.

Equivalents

Français Cdo

Examples

“The problem is that the connection between subprime default rates, on the one hand, and CDO valuations and default rates, on the other, is so complex that it's very difficult to say in a simple sense that a rise in mortgage defaults will lead to a rise in CDO defaults.”
“These CDOs had been so sliced and diced that it was possible to claim that a tier of the interest payments from the original borrowers was as dependable as a stream of income on a ten-year US Treasury bond, and therefore worthy of a coveted triple-A rating.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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