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  Treasury note

  noun

  a note or bill issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, receivable as legal tender for all debts except as otherwise expressly provided.
• treasury note
  treasury note

  noun

Treasury note

American  

Or treasury note

noun

1. a note or bill issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, receivable as legal tender for all debts except as otherwise expressly provided.

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treasury note British  

noun

1. 1. a medium-term interest-bearing obligation issued by the US Treasury, maturing in from one to five years

   2. Also called: currency note.  a note issued by the British Treasury in 1914 to the value of £1 or ten shillings: amalgamated with banknotes in 1928

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Etymology

Origin of Treasury note

First recorded in 1750–60

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The yield on the 2-year Treasury note, which is particularly sensitive to changes in the rate outlook, settled at 4.160%, its highest level since February 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Bond yields have risen on inflation fears, with the 10-year Treasury note hovering near 4.5%.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

Treasury note down to 4.454%—from 4.480% Wednesday and almost 4.7% earlier in the month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

That metric is the equity risk premium, often defined as the gap between the S&P 500’s earnings yield—the profit companies generate relative to stock valuations, expressed as a percentage—and that of the 10-year Treasury note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Each was a United States Treasury note for five hundred dollars.

From The Lost Road by Davis, Richard Harding

In 2015, the Treasury Department released a treasury note entitled “Helping More Americans Save,” in part to mark America Saves Week.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2025

Treasury bills and German bonds, known as bunds, while, for a second straight day, the yield on the two-year Japanese treasury note hovered just above zero.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2022

The yield on the U.S. 10-year treasury note continued to edge higher, to about 3.802 percent, after rising above 4 percent on Wednesday for the first time since October 2008.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

As a result, there have been proposals to change the interest rate benchmark to Australia’s 10-year treasury note, but so far that hasn’t come to pass.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2015

The figures on the outside one showed that it was a treasury note for fifty dollars.

From Tangled Trails A Western Detective Story by Raine, William MacLeod