debt-for-equity
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› FINANCE used to describe a situation in which shareholders in a company are given bonds to replace their shares: Its lenders agreed to a debt-for-equity swap to save the company. The company extended its debt-for-equity offer for a further day in order to raise the level of support for the crucial deal.
→ See also debt-equity swap(Definition of debt-for-equity adjective from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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