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Used to describe securities, companies and related items in or near bankruptcy or insolvency. The term does not have a strict, technical or legal definition. For example, a distressed security might be a security where the issuer has defaulted or a security that is selling at a substantially discounted price where a default is expected in the future.
Distressed (Wikipedia)
Distress may refer to:
- Distress (medicine), an aversive state in which a person shows maladaptive behaviors
- Mental distress (or psychological distress)
- Distress, or distraint, the act of seizing goods to compel payment
- Distress (novel), a novel by Greg Egan
- Distress (1946 film), a 1946 French film
- Distress (1929 film), a 1929 French silent film
- Distress signal, an recognized means for obtaining help
- Distressed inventory, goods or materials whose potential to be sold at a normal cost has passed
- Distressing, the process of making an object appear aged
- Stone washing, a similar technique used on apparel
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Distressed (Wiktionary)
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɪˈstɹɛst/
- Rhymes: -ɛst
- Hyphenation: dis‧tressed
Adjective
distressed (comparative more distressed, superlative
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