coupon

coupon

1. Commerce

a. a detachable part of a ticket or advertisement entitling the holder to a discount, free gift, etc.

b. a detachable slip usable as a commercial order form

c. a voucher given away with certain goods, a certain number of which are exchangeable for goods offered by the manufacturers

2. History a ticket issued to facilitate rationing

Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

coupon

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(chemical engineering)

Polished metal strip of specified size and weight used to detect the corrosive action of liquid or gas products or to test the efficiency of corrosion-inhibitor additives. Also known as corrosion coupon.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Coupon

 

a part of a security—a bond or a stock—that entitles the owner to receive a set return in the form of interest or dividends. The coupon is presented for payment, usually through a bank, to the corporation or government authority that issued the security.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.