See Also: Hong Kong Interbank Offer Rate (HIBOR)(finance)
Paris Interbank Offer Rate (PIBOR)(money)
Paris Interbank Offer Rate (PIBOR)(finance)
Hong Kong(medicine)
Hong Kong(tourism)
Hong Kong(dictionary)
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Hong Kong Interbank Offer Rate (HIBOR) (finance) and nettlesome (iou)


Hong Kong Interbank Offer Rate (HIBOR) (finance)


The annual interest rate in Hong Kong dollars on lendings and borrowings made between banks in the interbank market.





nettlesome (iou)



nettlesome adjective. M18.
[from NETTLE noun or verb + -SOME1.]
Easily nettled, irritable. M18.
Causing annoyance, vexatious; awkward, difficult. Chiefly N. Amer. M19.
New York Times Iran's willingness to doublecross the nettlesome Kurds. S. I. Landau The difficulty of distinguishing between lexical units and items in a nomenclature is especially nettlesome in specialized dictionaries.