gilt-edged

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

(finance) very safe: gilt-edged securities / shares / stocks (= INVESTMENTS that are considered safe because they have been sold by the government)

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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gilt-edgedEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary gilt-edgedEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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