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- variable rate loan
- borrowing limit
- subprime mortgage crisis
- Zunu a house-rent slave (unable to buy an apartment and oppressed by the house rent) 【租奴定义】 第一条:每月收入在1000元-2000元之间； 第二条:无房产并且未来五年内买不起房； 第三条:每个月生活成本占总工资收入比例的3/4，或房租一项占工资比例的1/2； 第四条:为了省钱，居住环境像奴隶； 第五条:为了较好的居住环境，节衣缩食付房租。 租房的朋友们，你符合哪几条呢？如果你符合三条以上，就有租奴的嫌疑！
- Definition: Small tube beads in shell, precious metal or stone. Also called (when in silver) "liquid silver". Derivation: From native American language. ?Navajo
- Definition: The sexual basis of the vampire relationship. Derivation: Coined by Christopher Frayling in "The Vampyre". Citation: "Whether vampirism is related to civilization and its discontents (Freud), to suppressed memories in the collective unconscious (Jung), to breast-feeding and the projection onto others of the need to bite (Melanie Klein), or to monstrous manifestations of eroticism for any othe reason, I have chosen 'haemosexuality' as the most apt general term to describe the sexual basis of the vampire relationship " The Vampyre by Christopher Frayling, 1978; London: Victor Gollanz.
- Definition: The Gleninsheen Collar is a gorget or neck ornament made from a sheet of pure gold, dating from approx 700 BC (the Late Bronze Age). The term "Gleninsheen Collar" is also a shorthand to describe a special mark on Irish silver: a small logo of the Collar appears on the Irish silver Hallmark for 1973 to commemorate Ireland's year of entry into the EU. The Gleninsheen Collar is also the logo of the Federation of Jewellery Manufacturers of Ireland. Also called: Gleninsheen Gorget
- Definition: Electronic message sent on a GSM mobile phone by the SMS ( short mesage services) facility. Derivation: Combination of GSM and e-mail. Citation: "In Germany, more than half a billion SMS messages, which the Association has started to call "g-mails", travelled the airwaves. ". Financial Times 2000-03-15.
- Definition: The term of venery for ferrets, as in "a fesnying of ferrets"; the collective noun for ferrets.
- Definition: A problem in telecoms software (relating to the 22 April 2000 UK dial code changes) whereby new dialling codes may not be recognised, causing a system to dial international numbers, specifically in the example of 020 (London) being dialled as +20 (international dial code for Egypt). Citation: "Oftel, the telephone industry regulator, appears to have been wrong-footed by the Egypt bug. " Financial Times 2000-03-30.