TIGR

British  

abbreviation

1. Also called: Tiger.  Treasury Investment Growth Receipts: a bond denominated in dollars and linked to US treasury bonds, the yield on which is taxed in the UK as income when it is cashed or redeemed

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Example Sentences

The former shows a bustling motor pool teeming with vehicles; the latter reveals what U.S. officials concluded is a state of extreme depletion months after the brigade’s return home with fewer than half of the Tigr tactical vehicles it had before the deployment.

From Washington Post

Yet Tigr and Mitchell feel as alive as a fresh fever.

From New York Times

A half-destroyed armored Tigr fighting vehicle, Russia’s answer to the Humvee, was sitting on a flatbed truck.

From New York Times

On returning to TIGR, I told Ham Smith, Nobel laureate and my friend and colleague, what I saw and said that I had to go do this.

From Scientific American

My team at my first not-for-profit research institute, The Institute for Genomic Research or TIGR, was funded to do a small segment and assumed we would sit out the genome project.

From Scientific American