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industrial revenue bond

 
 
noun [C] FINANCE

Definition

a bond sold by local or state government to finance industrial or business projects: The company said it filed for $8 billion of industrial revenue bonds, which it plans to use to expand and upgrade its semiconductor plants.
(Definition of industrial revenue bond noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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