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Sitting in the chair while someone takes scissors to your hair: a length of it comes off and does not come back. You can think of the word as holding both halves of that moment — the cutting itself, and what is left when it is over.
可以想成坐在理髮椅上，剪刀在頭上喀擦幾下：一截頭髮掉在地上，就回不去了。這個字大概同時裝著那一刻的兩半——剪的這件事…更多收起
可以想成坐在理髮椅上，剪刀在頭上喀擦幾下：一截頭髮掉在地上，就回不去了。這個字大概同時裝著那一刻的兩半——剪的這件事，和剪完之後剩下的樣子。「被剪掉一截、少了一塊」這個感覺，後來也被借去講錢。原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
haircutnoun/ˈhɛə(ɹ)kʌt/
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The act of cutting of the hair, often done professionally by a barber, hair stylist, or beautician.
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The style into which the hair is cut.
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businesslawA partial loss, financially: thus, in a bankruptcy proceeding, the proportional reduction in the debt that will be paid to each creditor (based on an evaluation of the total debt owed and the total assets of the debtor); among investors, the negative return on investment from a losing proposition.
- to take a haircut
- And he needs to make sure that any American bank that was involved in loans to Asia, and now wants to share in the I.M.F. bailout, takes a haircut. And I'm not just talking about a trim.
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businessfinanceThe difference between the value of a loan and the value of its collateral.
- Government securities having high credit rating such as Treasury bonds and Treasury bills are usually subjected to 1% to 10% haircut, while for more risky, volatile or illiquid securities, such as a stock option, the haircut might be as high as 30%.
haircutverb/ˈhɛə(ɹ)kʌt/
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To reduce the value assigned to an asset.
- But whereas in the past it has been possible for a brokerage house to credit a customer’s account for 100 percent of the value of a commodity, we have required that that value be haircutted significantly.
- That is because the future stream of income is discounted to present value at perhaps as much as two to three percentage points above the prime rate and then haircutted by as high as 33½%.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。