U.S. Treasury securities. Definition: Interest-bearing obligations if the U.S. government issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a means of borrowing money to meet government expenditures not covered by tax revenues. There are three types of marketable Treasury securities-bills, notes and bonds.
Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Rigorous(adj) manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.
Learner's definition of CONTINUUM. [count] formal. : a range or series of things that are slightly different from each other and that exist between two different possibilities. His motives for volunteering lie somewhere on the continuum between charitable and self-serving. a continuum of temperatures ranging from very cold to very hot.