instrument
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Example Sentences
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More complex structured instruments as well as increased leverage in the private markets that are now available mean that the real-world footprint of many assets are many times their notional value.
GDRs are instruments issued by a bank that represent shares in a foreign company.
For instance it said, children might be unable to attend clubs or trips and be limited in choosing some lesson options because of the additional costs - such as buying a musical instrument.
From BBC
Meanwhile, Black Americans enslaved on plantations were using homemade instruments such as stringed gourds to produce music with complex rhythms influenced by African traditions, which would later develop into blues and jazz.
The crooner Rudy Vallee embraced the microphone as an instrument that enabled listeners to hear him as if he were singing directly into their ears.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
