A debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)

Usage examples of floater.

Maylo into the backseat, left Booly to fend for himself, and circled the floater to take his position behind the controls.

Maia watched from the precipice, along with Brod and several women, remembering the last time she had seen big floaters like these, though nowhere near this many.

Rather, they had resigned themselves and their budlings to less than their share of the wonders of the modern world: houses that thought, scudders and floaters, falqon-mail that flew from continent to continent where pitchens had only skimmed, communications that no longer called for nervograps, recordimals offering faithful transcriptions of the greatest thinkers and entertainers, newsimals and scentimals and haulimals, and the rest.

But when Kylla broke into a gallop over a meadow flecked with white hearthwhistle and golden violets, and Ran laughed and went after her, Eln put out his hand to the front of my floater.

And in opening my report of the complex case of Gussie Fink-Nottle, Madeline Bassett, my Cousin Angela, my Aunt Dahlia, my Uncle Thomas, young Tuppy Glossop and the cook, Anatole, with the above spot of dialogue, I see that I have made the second of these two floaters.

Romblit division lands at Beregesh with strong floater support, under heavy fire from log-and-earth bunkers, including lobbers and blast hoses not evidenced before.

At about 4:30 Lotta called back, and arrived just before five, popping over in her four-place floater.

And he was saving the lives of the two Mues inside the floater, he argued with himself.

Navigorn had brought his army quickly down from its hilltop position, a battalion of small floaters at the center that were equipped with low-caliber energy-throwers, flanked by two squadrons of mounted spearsmen, and the mass of the infantry held back to the rear.

What comes back are floaters and wrigglers and squirmers, none bigger than a little finger.

I picked out the stunner by its parabolic reflector, the cameras, and a toroidal coil that had to be part of the floater device.

Sealer Greenlaw and Chief Venn, now supplied with floaters, awaiting them.

Even as he was turning the floater controls to manual, Billy Antrim had the first twinge of doubt about the philosophy in which he had been raised.

Grimacing, he allowed Ekaterin and ghem-General Benin to help him from the van into a floater.

Bel dipped its floater for Benin to press the beribboned roll into its hands, and though its eyes were bright with irony, murmured thanks to the distant Fletchir Giaja in return, and kept its sense of humor, for once, under full control.