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Finance

A structure through which capital is deployed

A legal entity or structure through which investors pool and deploy capital while keeping certain assets and risks separate from a sponsor, such as a fund, a trust, or a special purpose vehicle: the vehicle holds the assets and issues the claims, so investors gain exposure through it rather than directly. Gorton and Souleles's 2007 chapter Special purpose vehicles and securitization analysed how such off-balance-sheet vehicles isolate assets and reallocate risk in securitization. The referent is a financial and legal construct that holds and channels money, judged by its structure and risk, and it is not a physical machine, a carrier for a drug, or a term in a metaphor.[1]

Unit
One entity or structure, by the assets it holds and claims it issues
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Analysed through its legal structure, balance sheet, cash flows, and the allocation of risk to investors

Rhetoric and literary theory

The carrying image of a metaphor

In the analysis of metaphor, the image or term that carries the meaning across to an underlying subject, contrasted with the tenor, which is the subject itself: in "the mind is a garden", the garden is the vehicle and the mind is the tenor. Richards's 1936 The Philosophy of Rhetoric introduced this pairing of tenor and vehicle to describe how a metaphor works by the interaction between the two. The referent is a component of figurative language, identified by close reading rather than measured, and it is not a machine, a carrier substance for a drug, or a financial structure.[2]

Unit
The carrying term of one metaphor, set against its tenor
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Identified by close reading of a metaphor, separating the carrying image from the subject it describes

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References

  1. Gorton, G. B., & Souleles, N. S. (2007). Special purpose vehicles and securitization. In M. Carey & R. M. Stulz (Eds.), The risks of financial institutions (pp. 549–602). University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226092980.003.0013
  2. Richards, I. A. (1936). The philosophy of rhetoric. Oxford University Press.

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