What's the difference between debentured and drawback?
Debentured
Definition:
(a.) Entitled to drawback or debenture; as, debentured goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the investments will typically run for 20 or 25 years, if you want to get your money out before the end date, Davis says there will be an eBay-style bulletin board on the website allowing investors to sell their debentures for a mutually agreeable price to a willing buyer.
(2) The original investment is paid back over the lifetime of the debenture or as a lump sum at maturity.
(3) Those who put their money in will be buying debentures, which are like official IOUs issued by the individual energy projects.
Drawback
Definition:
(n.) A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.
(n.) Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied.
Example Sentences:
(1) The drawbacks of the study, such as lack of controls, are discussed.
(2) The use of different theoretical models is discussed, taking into consideration their specific scope and drawbacks.
(3) In order to minimize the drawbacks, some measures have to be taken, f.i.
(4) In order to avoid the drawbacks of the cutting end of the bare optic fibers, it may be covered with sapphire optics which conducts well laser energy.
(5) Although this method has some important drawbacks and is suboptimal as far as foetal signal-to-noise ratio is concerned, it is still very useful when only a foetal trigger is required, as the signal obtained is not a complete FECG.
(6) The immunoreactivity of thymoma epithelial cells with L26, an antibody widely used in the characterization of B-cell lymphomas, can represent a drawback of practical relevance in the differential diagnosis of mediastinal tumors.
(7) This drawback of the unifactorial methods has been overcome by the use of adjusted survival curves which take possible distortions in the data set into account.
(8) The advantages and drawbacks of the different techniques of the prostate needle biopsy are commented.
(9) Overcoming these drawbacks will be useful in improving patients-doctors relations and increasing in quality of medical assistance.
(10) Nowadays, electro-oculography remains the only clinical method for ocular movement recording which is largely used in daily practise, but it has many drawbacks and limits.
(11) The requirement for unfixed tissue is a major drawback in the use of immunohistochemistry for the diagnosis of inflammatory and neoplastic disease.
(12) Because natural language teaching has many strengths, few drawbacks, and produces equal generalization and retention under disadvantageous conditions, it is strongly supported as preferable for people with autism and mental retardation.
(13) Motion artifacts are the major drawback of the present laser Doppler systems.
(14) In order to overcome various drawbacks of the conventional polygraphic study of a relationship between myoclonus and EEG, the EEG preceding and following the myoclonic jerk was simultaneously averaged by the CNV program.
(15) Each treatment has advantages and drawbacks which must be taken into account for the therapeutic choice and the follow-up.
(16) One of the drawbacks to using the intraosseous route as an alternative to IV access has been the persistent need to establish IV access to obtain blood samples.
(17) Sitting in the Khartoum restaurant as the fierce late-afternoon sun intrudes through the windows, Lubna dismisses the notion that western praise might be a drawback in a country like Sudan.
(18) A major drawback of SPE is the batch-to-batch variation of the sorbents.
(19) The double-lung transplantation procedure continued to have significant drawbacks, including intraoperative and postoperative hemorrhage, and cardiac complications due to prolonged cardiopulmonary bypass, ischemic cardiac arrest, and extensive manipulation of the heart.
(20) The only drawback to surgery was an average strength loss of 50%.