rating agency

rating agency An organization that monitors the credit backing of institutions and of bond issues and other forms of public borrowings. It may also give a rating of the risks involved in holding specific stocks. The three best known are Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, and Fitch, all of which have been in existence for over 100 years. See alsocredit rating.

• Compumailer
• computer-aided design
• computer-aided manufacturing
• computer-aided personal interview
• computer-aided self-interview
• computer-assisted audit techniques
• computer-assisted panel research
• computer-assisted telephone interviewing
• computer-assisted trading
• computer-based training
• computer-integrated manufacturing system
• computer output microfilm
• concealed unemployment
• concentrated segmentation
• concentration
• concept test
• concert-party agreement
• concurrent control
• concurrent engineering
• condition
• conditionality
• conditional sale agreement
• Confederation of British Industry
• conference lines
• conferencing