term deposit

noun [C or U] (also time deposit)

Definition

› BANKING, FINANCE an arrangement with a bank in which you have an account that pays interest, usually with money left in it for a fixed period of time: They hold term deposits which cannot be paid until the date the deposit would have matured.

(Definition of term deposit noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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