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Canary

nounadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//kəˈnɛəɹi//
  • United States//kəˈnɛəɹi//

Someone connected with Norwich City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

noun

  1. 1

    Someone connected with Norwich City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

Etymology

From 1907, coined by the football club's then-chairman who was a keen breeder of canaries.

adjective

  1. 1

    That can be exercised on quarterly dates, a set time period (usually one year) after the issue date, and before the expiry date.

    Canary callable bonds are a type of step-up bond that is a hybrid structure, having elements of both Bermudan and European calls.

    The canary bond is unique in that it is callable during the period before the security converts to a noncallable or bullet structure; the canary callable coupon can possess a step-up feature.

    A (receiver) Canary swaption has two expiry dates 0 < θ₁ < θ₂ ≤ t₀ and involved two swaps Sⁱ (i = 1, 2) with cash -flows (t_(i,j), c_(i,j)) (1 ≤ j ≤ nᵢ).

Etymology

Based on the geography of the Canary Islands, between Bermudan and European.

Forms

plural
Canaries
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).