Treasury bills

Cultural  

1. Securities issued by the U.S. government. T-bills normally have fixed terms; that is, the purchaser cannot take possession of the accrued interest for a fixed period of time after purchase. T-bills are auctioned by the Treasury each week; the auction determines the six-month interest rate.

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Example Sentences

Berkshire ended 2025 with a record $373.1 billion in cash and Treasury bills after accounting for a payable for purchasing some of the short-term government debt, a 4% increase from three months earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal

The total size of the Treasury market was a little over $30 trillion as of last month; about $6.5 trillion of the borrowing is in Treasury bills.

From MarketWatch

A cleaner approach would be an automatic Treasury-Fed asset swap after QE ends, in which the Fed exchanges its long-term bonds for short-term Treasury bills.

From Barron's

Treasury bills, except the issuer keeps the profits from the interest, while the traders typically make nothing.

From The Wall Street Journal

That’s when the central bank ended its quantitative-tightening program, or efforts to incrementally shrink its balance sheet without disruptions, and started purchasing Treasury bills to add reserves back into the system.

From MarketWatch