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1. majority shareholder: A shareholder who is part of a group that controls more than half the outstanding shares of a corporation.

2. management buyout (MBO) :  Leveraged buyout whereby the acquiring group is led by the firm's management.

3. maturity date: The date on which a note or other obligation becomes due.

4. maturity value: The amount of an obligation to be collected or paid at maturity; equal to principal plus any interest.

5. merchant bank: A British term for a bank that specializes not in lending out its own funds, but in providing various financial services such as accepting bills arising out of trade, underwriting new issues, and providing advice on acquisitions, mergers, foreign exchange, portfolio management, etc.

6. merger: (1) Acquisition in which all assets and liabilities are absorbed by the buyer. (2) More generally, any combination of two companies. The firm's activity in this respect is sometimes called M&A (Merger and Acquisition)

7. minority interest: The interest owned in a subsidiary by stockholders other than those of the parent company; occurs when the acquiring company has less than a 100 percent ownership interest.

8. modal share The percentage of total freight moved by a particular type of transportation.

9. mortgage amortization schedule:  A schedule that shows the breakdown between interest and principal for each payment over the life of a mortgage.

10. mortgage payable: A written promise to pay a stated amount of money at one or more specified future dates; a mortgage is secured by the pledging of certain assets, usually real estate, as collateral.

  
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