Business / Loan / Current Ratio: Current assets divided by current liabilities -- a measure of liquidity. Generally, the higher the ratio, the greater the 'cushion' between current obligations and a firm's ability to meet them.
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Current Noun Synonyms: course, progress, tendency, tenor, drift, trend, inclination, mainstream
Current Adjective Synonyms: contemporary, ongoing, present, contemporaneous, simultaneous, coeval
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Ratio Adverb Synonyms: proportion, relationship, correlation, correspondence
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Business / Finance / Quick Ratio: Indicator of a company's financial strength (or weakness). Calculated by taking current assets less inventories, divided by current liabilities. This ratio provides information regarding the firm's li MORE
Business / Accounting / Acid-Test Ratio (Or Quick Ratio): A measure of a firm's ability to meet current liabilities: more restrictive than the current ratio, it is computed by dividing net quick assets (all current assets, except inventories and prepaid expe MORE
Business / Finance / Open-Market Operation: Purchase or sale of government securities by the monetary authorities to increase or decrease the domestic money supply. MORE
Business / Real Estate / Open-Market Operations: The buying and selling of government securities by the Federal Reserve to control the amount of money in circulation. MORE
Business / Finance / Odd-Lot Short-Sale Ratio: The percentage of total odd-lot sales that is composed of short sales. MORE
Science / Weather / Obscuration: Any phenomena in the atmosphere, excluding precipitation, that reduces horizontal visibility. According to the National Weather Service, some of the obstructions to visibility include blowing and wide MORE