Monoline

Quick meaning: Monoline is a noun meaning (business) A company operating in only one industry or line of business; often specifically a bank specializing in credit card issuance.

Meaning

(business) A company operating in only one industry or line of business; often specifically a bank specializing in credit card issuance.

More Meanings

1. (finance) An insurer specialized in insuring investment-grade securities against loss.
2. (calligraphy) A font line of consistent width, as occurs when imitating pencil script.
3. (aquaculture) A length of monofilament line, used for culturing forms of seaweed.
4. (printing, dated) A type of composing machine in which each line of type is cast as a single slug.
5. (spectroscopy) A single spectrum line.

Example Sentences

The other leading monolines in 2002 were Capital One and Providian.

[…] monolines appear everywhere in the art of the Western letter, and have shaped the alphabet's development as much as the edged line of the broad pen.

The premium charged by the monoline is not for funding expected losses, as with insurance, but for enhancing an investment-grade security to a AAA level.

With the straight matter being set on the linotype or monoline, the hand compositor was left with what he claimed was the most 'skilled' part of his old work.

Word Forms

• monolines

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include monosemant, monoplast, monology, monostich, mononom, monophone.

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