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Stop out price(finance)
Stop order (or stop)(money)
Stop order (or stop)(finance)
Exercise price or strike price of an option(finance)
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Flat price (also clean price)(money)
Relief(medicine)
tax relief(dictionary)
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relief(2) (iou) and Stop out price (finance)


relief(2) (iou)



relief noun2. E17.
[French from Italian rilievo, rilevo, from rilevare raise, ult. from Latin relevare RELIEVE verb. Cf. RELIEVO noun1.]
A method of moulding, carving, stamping, etc., in which the design stands out from a plane surface so as to have a natural and solid appearance; the degree to which a design projects in this way. E17.
half-relief: in which figures etc. project to the extent of half their true proportions. high relief, low relief: in which the projections of the design correspond more (or less) closely to those of the object depicted. middle-relief = half-relief above.
A. Ure The face of the block..is carved in relief.
b. A composition or design executed by such a method. L17.
M. Bergmann In the Vatican Museum he comes across a relief of a young Beauty lifting her hemline.
The appearance of solidity or detachment given to a design or composition on a plane surface by the arrangement and disposition of the lines, colours, shades, etc.; distinctness of outline due to this; fig. vividness, distinctness, or prominence due to contrast or artistic presentation. L18.
W. Irving A church with its dark spire in strong relief against the..sky. E. Wharton The return to town threw into stronger relief the charms of the life she was leaving.
(The extent of) variation in elevation of an area, geographical feature, etc.; difference in height from the surrounding terrain. M19.
Nature These lavas form a faulted dissected plateau of considerable relief.
Comb.: relief map: that indicates the relief of an area, either by the analogous form of its surface or by a system of colouring, shading, etc.; relief printing = letterpress (b) s.v. LETTER noun1.

Stop out price (finance)


The lowest auction price at which Treasury bills are sold.