Sinking
61Sinking Fund — A means of repaying funds that were borrowed through a bond issue. The issuer makes periodic payments to a trustee who retires part of the issue by purchasing the bonds in the open market. Rather than the issuer repaying the entire principal of a …
62Sinking fund — Fund Fund, n. [OF. font, fond, nom. fonz, bottom, ground, F. fond bottom, foundation, fonds fund, fr. L. fundus bottom, ground, foundation, piece of land. See {Found} to establish.] 1. An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies… …
63sinking head — Shrinking Shrink ing, a. & n. from {Shrink}. [1913 Webster] {Shrinking head} (Founding), a body of molten metal connected with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; called also {sinking head},… …
64sinking spell — a temporary decline, as in health or market values: Wall Street is over its sinking spell. * * * …
65sinking feeling — noun A feeling of uneasiness or apprehension :I have a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach …
66sinking stream — See sinking river …
67Sinking Spring — Original name in latin Sinking Spring Name in other language State code US Continent/City America/New York longitude 40.32731 latitude 76.01105 altitude 123 Population 4008 Date 2011 05 14 …
68sinking feeling — feeling of failure; despair When I saw the ambulance at our house, I got a sinking feeling …
69sinking fund — A fund set up to replace a wasting asset at the end of its useful life. Usually a regular annual sum is set aside to enable the fund, taking into account interest at the expected rate, to replace the exhausted asset at a specified date. Some have …
70sinking fund — A *fund characterized by the periodic setting aside of amounts of *money to meet obligations. Common purposes of sinking funds include the repayments of loans and the replacement of *property plant, and equipment …
