Term: junk bond: a (speculative) bond with a credit rating of BB or lower; issued for leveraged buyouts and other takeovers by companies with questionable credit
Candidate hypernym: bond: a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal → 1
Candidate hypernym: cercopidae: froghoppers or spittlebugs → 0
Candidate hypernym: field magnet: a magnet that provides a magnetic field in a dynamo or electric motor → 0
Candidate hypernym: new world blackbird: any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black → 0
Candidate hypernym: pork loin: meat from a loin of pork → 0
Candidate hypernym: chorion: the outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) → 0
Candidate hypernym: vasa efferentia: the several highly convoluted tubules that lead from the rete testis to the vas deferens and form the head of the epididymis → 0
Candidate hypernym: neurotrichus: shrew moles → 0
Candidate hypernym: ovum: the female reproductive cell; the female gamete → 0
Candidate hypernym: drift: a process of linguistic change over a period of time → 0
Candidate hypernym: saving grace: a redeeming quality or characteristic → 0