T-bill

[ tee-bil ]

noun

1. a U.S. Treasury bill.

T-bill

noun

1. short for Treasury bill

Word History and Origins

Origin of T-bill¹

An Americanism dating back to 1970–75

Example Sentences

Tom Simons, U.S. economist at Jefferies in New York, said the current market environment should support a more elevated T-bill percentage for some time because of a still-healthy appetite for shorter-term investments.

From Reuters

Treasury started rebuilding its account through T-bills after the government's debt ceiling was suspended last month.

From Reuters

The expected T-bill sales could drain liquidity in financial markets, investors and analysts have said.

From Reuters

"I wouldn’t blame the Treasury rally on the debt ceiling deal necessarily... the additional T-bill issuance, quantitative tightening, and difficult bank funding conditions now conspire to less favourable financing conditions to the economy," said Bouvet.

From Reuters

That decline in dollar liquidity will get used to buy $800 billion to $850 billion in T-bills by the end of September.

From Reuters