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Bought Deal

(1) A securities underwriting characterized by a firm price or a rate guaranteed by the underwriting firm(s). This British term describes a procedure relatively new in the United Kingdom but long standard in the United States. See Underwriter (1). (2) The term is also used in the United Kingdom to describe secondary market transactions that would be called block trades in the United States.

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