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comfort letter

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noun

  1. an informal statement assuring the financial soundness or backing of a company.

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"It has come to our notice that there may well have been at least one letter, a comfort letter if we call them that, that has been issued wrongly in Northern Ireland," he said.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2014

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