MBS

See also: MBs, Mb/s, MbS, and M.B.s

English

Noun

MBS

1. (finance) Initialism of mortgage-backed security.
   • 2020, Katharina Pistor, chapter 4, in The Code of Capital […] , Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

     This new vehicle funded the purchases of these tranches by issuing fixed-income interests to investors who were seeking high returns and who were willing to believe that by repackaging mezzanine tranches in MBS structures, some tranches could be designated as safe enough to obtain a AAA or AA rating.

3. (anthropology) Initialism of mother's brother's son.
   • 2016 April 11, Felicity Meakins, Carmel O'Shannessy, Loss and Renewal: Australian Languages Since Colonisation, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 102:

     Omaha skewing of the junior terms in 1970–1972, for instance mugur to mean a matrilateral cross-cousin MBS as well as MyB, and ngamu to mean MBD as well as M/MyZ. While this was disappearing in the younger generation, new compounds were […]

Proper noun

MBS

1. Alternative form of MbS (“Mohammed bin Salman”)
   • 2020 August 20, “The United Arab Emirates has become a force in the Middle East”, in The Economist:

     The UAE's more assertive role roughly coincides with the ascent of Muhammad bin Salman, or MBS, the Saudi prince who became heir to the throne in 2017. “MBS is young, he's new, and he's busy with socioeconomic changes at home,” says a Western diplomat in the Gulf.

   • 2023 June 6, Thomas L. Friedman, “From Tel Aviv to Riyadh”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     In Saudi Arabia, the societal transformations being imposed from the top down by the iron-fisted Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (M.B.S.) are now so profound that if you have not been to Saudi Arabia in the past five years, you may as well have not been there at all.

Anagrams

• BMS, BMs, BSM, MSB, SBM, SMB