fixed-income

[ fikst-in-kuhm ]

adjective

1. gaining or yielding a more or less uniform rate of income.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fixed-income¹

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

As one fixed-income manager mordantly noted, "The most dangerous thing in the world is a nominally risk free asset."

From The Daily Beast

She currently is retired and living on a fixed income in New York University faculty housing in Greenwich Village.

From The Daily Beast

At Lehman the difference between equity floor and the fixed income floor was like night and day.

From The Daily Beast

It's like the Harvard, MIT crowd in fixed income and then it's like UMass on the equity floor.

From The Daily Beast

We in fixed income were probably the most arrogant about a lot of things, but we were also the angriest about losing Warren.

From The Daily Beast

Without having any fixed income, this convent supports more than thirty religious.

From Project Gutenberg

He could throw everything he's got on Roaring Lake into the discard and still have forty thousand a year fixed income.

From Project Gutenberg

The very idea of a fixed income is as distasteful to him as the possibility of possessing it is distant and visionary.

From Project Gutenberg

He knows all about the low wages in one sphere, and the small allowance, or the fixed income with rising prices in another.

From Project Gutenberg

A moderate fixed income can now be had by any barrister early in life,—by any barrister of fair parts and sound acquirements.

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