CONVENTIONAL

conventional

Noun

  1. A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.

Adjective

  1. Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
  2. Ordinary, commonplace.
  3. Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.


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