Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DISHONOR - not able to be paid
  
  
• DISHONORED CHECK - a check for which payment has been denied when the check was presented to the drawee...
  
  
• DISHONORED NOTE - a note on which a debtor has defaulted.
  
  
• DISINFLATION - Disinflation is a slowdown in the rate of price increases that historically occurs durin...
  
  
• DISINTERMEDIATION - 1. The investing of funds that would normally have been placed in a bank or other f...
  
  
• DISINVESTMENT - A reduction in capital investment reflected by a decrease in capital goods and a compan...
  
  
• DISMISSAL - the termination of a bankruptcy proceeding. The bankruptcy court can dismiss a case if it d...
  
  
• DISORDERLY MARKET - A characterization of market conditions whereby there is excessive volatility at a ...
  
  
• DISPERSION - Is a statistical indication of variability, volatility, or risk. Some common measures of d...
  
  
• DISPLACEMENT - the movement of people, against their will, out of their homes or neighborhoods by force...