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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

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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Treasury note reached a fresh 19-year high, and nearly touched levels not seen since 2002.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

For the 30-year mortgage rate to go to 8%, the spread between the 10-year Treasury note and the 30-year mortgage would have to widen, economists said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which hit a 19-year high earlier in the week, continued to hover around 5%, ticking up to 4.995%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose 0.049 percentage point to 4.995%, a hair’s breadth from 19-year highs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 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

In that case the defendant was indicted for receiving a fifty-dollar treasury note, knowing it to have been stolen out of the mail of the United States.

From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. Warburton