Sentence examples for coupon from inspiring English sources
The word "coupon" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a voucher or certificate that offers a discount or rebate when purchasing a product or service. For example, "I found out about this great deal at the store thanks to the coupon I received in the mail."
noun
A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.
By March 1933, when appeals to patriotism by Chancellor Neville Chamberlain persuaded people to lose money by taking up a 3.5% coupon for the original 5% – times were hard!
But one wonders, for all his persuasive powers, what reaction Osborne would face if he were to appeal to today's electorate to accept a lower coupon.
The Conference cognoscenti are taking the bold view, marking the coupon with an X. Sutton have drawn nine of their 22 Conference games this season after being the draw specialists last season with 18.
The Liberals were arguably on the winning side in the next general election in 1918 though in that "coupon election" the "coalition Conservatives" won 332 seats to 127 for the "coalition Liberals".
The details vary, but in the case of Deutsche Telekom, for example, the coupon payable on its recent $14.5 billion bond issues would rise by half a percentage point were it downgraded to BBB+ by both rating agencies.In the balanceThe main cause of the firms' woes is the sharp deterioration in their balance-sheet ratios.
Japanese smartphone-owners, by contrast, are most likely to download a discount coupon or a special offer (see chart 2).Scanlife, a provider of QR code services, saw the number of unique users scanning codes through its system triple in the year to March.
RBS recently reported another big annual loss.From coupons to coupAndrew Mason was ousted as chief executive of Groupon, a pioneering online-coupon company that he helped to found but which has struggled against Google and others.
Several high-profile internet firms that went public last year, including Zynga, a social-gaming company, and Groupon, a coupon-peddler, have seen their shares fall below their IPO prices and stay there (see chart 1).
Five years ago Russia had a big budget deficit, a fixed exchange rate and a lot of high-coupon debt.
How to avoid becoming a nation of coupon-clippers?Abu Dhabi is experimenting with a more interesting future.
The Bank of Japan would buy bonds yielding 1.5% with its own freshly minted money, which is a zero-coupon perpetual liability.
