bills discounted

基本解释

According to Xinhua, RMB1.7 trillion in discounted bills will reach maturity in 2H09.
据新华社消息，约1.7万亿元票据贴现将在2009下半年纷纷到期。
As discounted bills mature (discounted bills and short-term loans accounted for about 1/3 of new lending in 1H09), Chinese banks are channeling the funds into medium and long-term loans.
随着票据贴现的到期(票据贴现和短期贷款占09上半年新增贷款的1/3)，国内银行将资金转至中长期贷款。
The banks have lent some of the surplus liquidity to state-owned enterprises in the form of discounted bills.
银行借给一些过剩的流动性，以国有企业的形式，票据贴现。

On a single day in early March, by way of Treasury bills discounted at the Reichsbank, the floating debt was increased by 800 milliards.
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Commercial bills, not government securities, would be discounted and the Fed, like other central banks, would be prohibited from owning sovereign debt (other than short-term revenue anticipation bonds).
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