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letter of credit
Definition: a document issued by a bank that guarantees the payment of a customer's draft; substitutes the bank's credit for the customer's credit
Definition: A document, used primarily in trade finance and issued generally by a financial institution, in which the institution promises to pay debts up to a certain limit to be acquired by the beneficiary against delivery of documents specified in the letter.