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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

Example Sentences

Treasury note yield settled at 4.595%, its highest closing level since February 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Surging bond yields, with the 10-year Treasury note reaching 4.54%, caused U.S. stock futures to slump 1%.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Treasury note to its highest level in more than a year, and halting a stock rally that had just carried the S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite to new records.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

But she’s not factoring in Fed cuts, sees inflation holding north of 3% for much of the year, and expects benchmark 10-year Treasury note yields to trend toward the 4.5% level.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

There is a great hurry to create such a system now on a basis of the partial sequestration of the greenback and the Treasury note, but the bottom principle is wrong.

From Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O by Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett)