See Also: Cash Settlement(money)
Cash settlement(finance)
Cash settlement contracts(money)
Cash sale-settlement(money)
Cash settlement contracts(finance)
ambages(dictionary)
Cash on cash return(finance)
Cash on Cash Return(money)
Cash-on-cash return(money)
Immediate settlement(finance)

Cash settlement contracts (finance) and ambages (iou)


Cash settlement contracts (finance)


Futures contracts such as stock index futures that settle for cash and do not involve delivery of the underlying.





ambages (iou)



ambages noun pl. Formerly, esp. in sense 1, also sing. ambage. LME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin ambages, from amb- both ways + agere to drive (cf. AMBIGUOUS). Naturalized from French until 7, but latterly treated as Latin.]
1. Roundabout or indirect modes of speech, for deceit, concealment, or delay. Now rare exc. as coinciding with fig. uses of sense 2. LME.
Chaucer If Calkas lede us with ambages, That is to seyn, with dowble wordes slye. A. Behn Without more ambages, Sir, I have..consented to marry him. Observer Popular literature is happiest when it can evade the ambages of language and fulfil itself in some unequivocal visual form like the cinema.
2. Indirect or roundabout paths, circuitous ways. Now chiefly fig. (lit. arch.). M16.
Bacon He shall, by Ambages of Diets, bathings, anointings, etc. prolong life. Swift The Other cost me so many strains and traps and ambages to introduce. S. Pegge You will find it, through the windings and ambages, eight, or perhaps nine miles.
ambagious adjective full of ambages, roundabout L16.