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laddering

n. (context agriculture English) (rfdef: English) vb. (present participle of ladder English)

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Laddering

Laddering is an investment technique that requires investors to purchase multiple financial products with different maturity dates.

Usage examples of "laddering".

Another numberbead, and I saw the laddering timetables of goods trains, arrivals at Stepney Sidings, the capacities of Tidesmeet's quays and warehouses.

I thought again of those laddering figures of accounts which I had glimpsed within those numberbeads at Walcote House.

In places, dunes covered the road entirely, the sand printed with the laddering tracks of enormous sidewinders, six to eight feet long.