Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• LENDING SECURITIES - Securities borrowed from a broker's inventory, from another customer's margin acco...
  
  
• LENIENCY CLAUSE - a provision written into a promissory note spelling out the lender's willingness to a...
  
  
• LENT - past tense of lend.
  
  
• LEPO - In a normal market the bid is less than the ask, and the difference – the bid-ask spread – would...
  
  
• LEPTOKURTIC (LEPTOKURTOSIS) - Describes the relatively peaked condition for a distribution. This condit...
  
  
• LEPTOKURTOSIS - The condition of a probability density curve to have fatter tails and a higher peak at ...
  
  
• LESS THAN CONTAINER LOAD - Shipments of less than container load size (<$50,000).
  
  
• LESS THAN CONTAINER LOAD (LCL) - a shipment in which the freight does not completely fill the container...
  
  
• LESS THAN FREEHOLD ESTATE - An interest in land which is limited to a certain period of time.
  
  
• LESS-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES (LDCS) - Also known as emerging markets. Countries who's per capita GDP is bel...