warehousing
B1CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The covert accumulation of a target's shares, often through nominees, ahead of a takeover bid.
The regulator suspected warehousing when a cluster of nominees quietly built a stake before the offer.
Business noun
Temporarily holding loans or assets on the balance sheet until they can be securitized or sold.
The bank's warehousing line funded the mortgages while the deal was assembled for securitization.
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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