Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• RECREANT - 1. cowardly or craven. 2. unfaithful, disloyal, or traitorous.
  
  
• RECTANGLE - A trading area bounded by horizontal, or near horizontal, lines. It can either be a reversa...
  
  
• RECTANGULAR (GOVERNMENT) SURVEY SYSTEM - A system established in 1785 by the federal government, provid...
  
  
• RECURRING ENTRY - a scheduled accounting entry that occurs consistently as to date and amount, e.g. a m...
  
  
• RECURSIVE - A process that is repetitive and usually dependent upon the results of the previous repetit...
  
  
• RED CHIP STOCKS - Shares listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange of companies with headquarters and oper...
  
  
• RED FLAG - A visual sign or indication of a defect. Something that warns a reasonably observant person ...
  
  
• RED HERRING - When a security is offered to the public for the first time, the underwriter prepares a p...
  
  
• RED HERRING PROSPECTUS - Investment/finance industry jargon for a preliminary prospectus issued to gaug...
  
  
• RED LINING - Term used to describe the illegal practice of refusing to lend to borrowers located in a d...