kangaroo
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Borrowed from Guugu Yimidhirr gangurru (“eastern grey kangaroo”). Despite a popular misconception, the Guugu Yimidhirr term does not mean "I don't know".
Inflected forms:
form: kangaroos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kangooroo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: kanguroo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: kanguru
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: kangaroos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kangarooing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kangarooed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kangarooed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: kangooroo
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: kanguroo
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: kanguru
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: kangooroo
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: kanguroo
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: kanguru
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia and New Guinea.
pos: noun
examples: Besides the Animals which I have before mentioned, called by the Natives Kangooroo, or Kanguru […].
In the woods are the kanguroo, the emu or cassowary, paroquets, and a variety of small birds […].
A lobbying effort by the Australian government to continue the trade of kangaroo skins and meat to California has failed, with the US state set to impose a ban on the import of the animal. […] Australia’s states and territories oversee management of kangaroos and wallabies but the federal government is involved in exports.
gloss: A hooded jacket with a front pocket, usually of fleece material, a kangaroo jacket.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
attributive
gloss: To practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.
pos: verb
gloss: To hunt kangaroo.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To move like a kangaroo.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Of or relating to Australia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The rapid growth in Kangaroo bond issues in the Australian market has given rise to an interest in the nature, trend and impact of this type of bond on Australia's international investment statistics. While Kangaroo bonds have been issued for a ...
Furthermore, the issuers access the kangaroo bond market in order to diversify their funding sources. ... driven by factors such as the relative cost of issuance, including hedging costs and the liquidity of underlying derivative and bond markets.
Non-resident. bonds. Bonds issued in the Australian market by non-resident entities are known as kangaroo bonds. Figure 8.6 shows that kangaroo bonds represent approximately one-third of non-government bonds outstanding, making them ...
3.1.2 The Australian dollar in the global bond market An internationalized currency also serves non-residents as a store of value ... borrowers issuing Australian dollar bonds in the domestic market (foreign bonds known as ' kangaroo bonds').
The market is comparatively liquid and the bonds are free of withholding tax if the funds are used overseas. The Commonwealth Bank has largely pioneered the market. It led the first kangaroo issue, a $150million offering by the (South) Korea ...
Some onshore markets have competed more successfully than others. Issuance in the Kangaroo bond market (Australian dollar bonds issued onshore by non- residents) soared over the 2002–06 period due to a combination of factors. While a ...
gloss: Characterized by rapidly jumping prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices are unstable in contrast to bear and bull markets.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: joey
marsupial
wallaby
wallaroo
Derived words: a kangaroo loose in the top paddock
anti-kangaroo
Australian as a kangaroo
eccentric kangaroo unicycle
fangaroo
forest kangaroo
jerboa kangaroo
kangaroo acacia
kangaroo apple
kangaroo ball
kangaroo-bar
kangaroo bar
kangaroo bear
kangaroo-beetle
kangaroo beetle
Kangaroobie
kangarooburger
kangaroo camp
kangaroo care
kangaroo closure
kangaroo code
kangaroo court
Kangaroo Creek
Kangaroo Defence
Kangaroo Defense
kangaroo dog
kangarooer
Kangaroo Flat
kangaroo-fly
kangaroo-foot plant
kangaroo fucker
kangaroo grass
Kangaroo Ground
Kangaroo Gully
kangaroo hare
Kangaroo Head
kangaroo-hop
kangaroo hop
kangaroo-hound
Kangaroo Inn
kangarooish
Kangaroo Island
kangaroo jerboa
kangaroo justice
kangaroolike
kangaroo meat
kangaroo mother care
kangaroo mother method
kangaroo mouse
kangaroo paw
kangaroo piss
kangaroo pocket
Kangaroo Point
kangaroo-rat
kangaroo rat
kangaroo route
kangaroo's-foot
kangaroo's-foot plant
kangaroo ship
kangaroo-shoot
kangaroo-shooter
kangaroo-shooting
kangaroo skin
kangaroo stoppie
kangaroo-thorn
kangaroo tick
kangaroo ticket
Kangaroo Tour
kangaroo trial
kangaroo unicycle
Kangaroo Valley
kangaroo vine
kangaroo word
kangatarian
musk kangaroo
Olyroos
rat-kangaroo
rat kangaroo
rock kangaroo
roo
Socceroo
tree-kangaroo
tree kangaroo
Upper Kangaroo River
Upper Kangaroo Valley
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