floating charge

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noun

mainly British an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral

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Words nearby floating charge

float-feed, float glass, floatie, floating, floating assets, floating charge, floating debt, floating dock, floating exchange rate, floating foundation, floating gang

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How to use floating charge in a sentence

He observes the bodies floating away on the river, pulling on his cigarette with a sneer.
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That is a fact recorded by the doctor in charge of the ambulance at the inquest.
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The added charge for access to hotel Wi-Fi is not only exploitative but increasingly irrelevant.
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Search teams find dozens of people and jet debris floating in the Java Sea, as the airline confirms the wreckage is from QZ8501.
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The last time there was a raid of this scale was in 2001, when 52 men were arrested on Queen Boat, a floating disco on the Nile.
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He was voluble in his declarations that they would “put the screws” to Ollie on the charge of perjury.
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden
The mother's lips could not finish the charge she was about to put upon her innocent child.
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After a bit of waiting, Mac decided that the smoke was floating from a certain direction, and we began to edge carefully that way.
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There was a time when Aristide Pujol, in sole charge of an automobile, went gaily scuttering over the roads of France.
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Louis was not less astonished at this charge, than the Empress had been at the communication which aroused it.
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