nominal value

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Humans, focused on nominal value, generally do not, and so lenders suffer as inflation erodes promised receipts.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2016

Brendon Moran, Global Co-Head, Corporate Origination Debt Capital Markets at Societe Generale in London, notes that while the nominal value of deals this year will smash records, the number of deals hasn't exploded.

From Reuters • Nov. 27, 2015

This way, governments might be able to avoid a reduction to the nominal value of the debt, known as a haircut, the document adds.”

From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2015

That is to reduce the interest rate on its debts to the eurozone and extend the repayment period without actually cutting the nominal value of the debt to be repaid.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2015

Agio, ā′ji-o, n. the difference between the real and nominal value of money, or between metallic and paper money: the variations from fixed pars or rates of exchange: discount.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various