carry
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
The net cost or benefit of holding a position over time, before any price change.
The trade had positive carry, paying the fund a steady yield while it waited for the thesis to play out.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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