negative pledge

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الإنجليزية - التركية
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الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
A type of loan or loan condition in which the borrower agrees with the lender not to allow any other lender or creditor to rank ahead for payment in the event of a liquidation. Such a loan is unsecured (ie. not backed by a charge over specific assets). Hailed as a great innovation when developed in the 1970s, but by the end of the 1980s had become a dirty word
promise not to mortgage property
negative pledge

    الواصلة

    neg·a·tive pledge

    التركية النطق

    negıtîv plec

    النطق

    /ˈnegətəv ˈpleʤ/ /ˈnɛɡətɪv ˈplɛʤ/

    علم أصول الكلمات

    () The idea (and hence presumably the name) developed in the United States, and then went global. (Reference: Trevor Sykes, The Bold Riders, second edition, 1996, ISBN 1-86448-184-6, page 8.)
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