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1. Banking. The additional consideration paid by a borrower in periods of high interest rates and Tight Money or by a marginally creditworthy borrower. For example, payment of an additional point (one percentage point of the principal amount borrowed) during periods of high loan demand. Also, the pledge of additional securities by a broker to finance securities trading for customers.

2. Finance. The addition of a conversion privilege on securities, making them convertible into common stock, and thus more valuable to investors.

Something included in a transaction to make it more acceptable.


Example: The seller agreed to pay insurance for up to one year as a sweetener for the buyer.

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Four groups of compounds are used to sweeten foods: (1)The sugars, of which the commonest is sucrose. Fructose has 173% of the sweetness of sucrose; glucose, 74%; maltose, 33%; and lactose, 16%. Honey is a mixture of glucose and fructose;(2)Bulk sweeteners, including sugar alcohols;(3)Synthetic non-nutritive sweeteners (intense sweeteners), which are many times sweeter than sucrose;(4)Various other chemicals such as glycerol and glycine (70% as sweet as sucrose), and certain peptides.

A special feature or benefit added to a debt instrument (such as bonds) or a preferred stock offering to increase its saleability in the markets. Two popular forms of sweeteners are warrants and rights, which allow the holder to either convert securities into stock at a later date or purchase shares at below-market prices. 

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Sweeteners are especially useful for companies that are having a hard time attracting investors or raising capital at affordable prices. A given company may want to conduct a standard debt offering, but if there isn't enough investor appetite to sell all of the debt, the sweetener can help attract enough investors to sell the entire issue. Sweeteners will always cost something extra to the company giving them away, but the exact cost may not be calculable until some date in the future.

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n. extra encouragement, usually in the form of money.  Money makes the best sweetener around.

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any compound intended as a substitute for sucrose in sweetening food or drink, and aimed at avoiding the possible harmful effects of sucrose. Such compounds therefore should be non-nutritive and nonharmful but with a taste and aftertaste similar to those of sucrose. They include aspartame, lactitol, mannitol, monellin, saccharin, stevioside, sucralose, and volemitol. Sodium cyclamate was used as a sweetener until it was banned in the USA in 1970 because of its carcinogenicity.

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For a list of words related to sweetener, see:

• Types of Food - sweetener: sugar or syrup used to make food sweet
• Sweeteners - sweetener: sugar or syrup used to make food sweet

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See words rhyming with "sweetener."

Dansk (Danish)
n. - sødemiddel

Nederlands (Dutch)
zoetstof, zoetje

Français (French)
n. - (lit) édulcorant, (Comm, Fin) incitation, pot-de-vin (fam)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Süßstoff, Bestechung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - γλυκαντικό, (μτφ.) φιλοδώρημα, (καθομ.) πρόσθετη δελεαστική παροχή

Italiano (Italian)
dolcificante

Português (Portuguese)
n. - adoçante (m)

Русский (Russian)
подслащивающее вещество, взятка

Español (Spanish)
n. - edulcorante, dulcificante

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - sötningsmedel, tröst, mildrande faktor

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
增甜剂, 甜头, 糖精, 好处

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 增甜劑, 甜頭, 糖精, 好處

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 감미료, 뇌물

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 甘味料, そでの下

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) السكرين , المحلى‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חומר ממתיק, שוחד (מדוברת)‬

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