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CDO en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of collateralized debt obligation.
    • The problem is that the connection between subprime default rates, on the one hand, and CDO valuations and default rates, on the other, is so complex that it's very difficult to say in a simple sense that a rise in mortgage defaults will lead to a rise in CDO defaults. 2007 June 28, “How bad is it?”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
    • These CDOs had been so sliced and diced that it was possible to claim that a tier of the interest payments from the original borrowers was as dependable as a stream of income on a ten-year US Treasury bond, and therefore worthy of a coveted triple-A rating. 2008, Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money, Penguin, page 8:
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of command duty officer.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of chief data officer.

Forms

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Deriveds

CDO-squared (collateralized debt obligation) · CDO-cubed (collateralized debt obligation)

Hypernyms

obligation · OOD · security · officer · person · person · instrument · asset · officer · duty officer

wikidata: Q1108930 · wikidata: Q1617970 · wikidata: Q432549

Source: en.wiktionary, “CDO” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

CDO en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Cagayan de Oro.