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  Treasury note

  noun

  a note or bill issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, receivable as legal tender for all debts except as otherwise expressly provided.
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Treasury note

American  

Or treasury note

noun

1. a note or bill issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, receivable as legal tender for all debts except as otherwise expressly provided.

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treasury note British  

noun

1. 1. a medium-term interest-bearing obligation issued by the US Treasury, maturing in from one to five years

   2. Also called: currency note.  a note issued by the British Treasury in 1914 to the value of £1 or ten shillings: amalgamated with banknotes in 1928

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Etymology

Origin of Treasury note

First recorded in 1750–60

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This gauge is based on the difference between the yield on a 5-year Treasury note and its inflation-protected cousin.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note declined 0.001 percentage point to 4.682%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Treasury note rose to 4.743%, its highest intraday level since January 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

But the yield on the 2-year Treasury note, which tends to rise and fall with changes in short-term interest-rate expectations, edged higher to 4.177% from 4.160% the day before.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

There is a great hurry to create such a system now on a basis of the partial sequestration of the greenback and the Treasury note, but the bottom principle is wrong.

From Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O by Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett) Reed

In 2015, the Treasury Department released a treasury note entitled “Helping More Americans Save,” in part to mark America Saves Week.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2025

Treasury bills and German bonds, known as bunds, while, for a second straight day, the yield on the two-year Japanese treasury note hovered just above zero.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2022

The yield on the U.S. 10-year treasury note continued to edge higher, to about 3.802 percent, after rising above 4 percent on Wednesday for the first time since October 2008.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

As a result, there have been proposals to change the interest rate benchmark to Australia’s 10-year treasury note, but so far that hasn’t come to pass.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2015

Instead there was a treasury note of a size that caused the white part of the boy's eyes to expand beyond all the laws of optics.

From Constance Dunlap by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve