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tail

noun/teɪl/

C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

The gap by which the price at a Treasury auction lags the market's expectation, signalling weak demand.

The long-bond auction printed a two-basis-point tail, and dealers were left holding the bag.

Topic: Banking in Business English

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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