Talk:rephasing

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Rfv-sense. debt rescheduling. Plausible, but never heard of it. DCDuring TALK 03:48, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

• See [1] for a mention. SemperBlotto 13:42, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
• Cited, sort of: specifically, I've added some cites that I think demonstrate that this sense is actually a bit broader. The 1998 cite uses it to refer to a rescheduling of a work to performed according to an existing contract (an obligation, but not a "debt" in the ordinary sense); the 2005 cite uses it exactly to mean a rescheduling of debt repayment (and many more IMF cites can be found in exactly that sense; I couldn't find any non-IMF examples, but they may well also exist); and the 2009 cite uses it to refer to rescheduling of a budget allocation (but more of an accounting formalism, as far as I can tell, than anything actually meaningful). If someone familiar with accounting terminology wants to put some work into this, there may be justification for giving debt rescheduling its own sense or subsense, but until that time, I recommend simply broadening our sense to accommodate the cites I've added. —Ruakh_TALK 23:03, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

The 2005 quotation makes this look like an effort to call a country's obligation to the IMF something other than a debt and the postponement of the originally scheduled discharge of that obligation something other than a "rescheduling". Ie, it's not a "debt rescheduling"; it's a "payment rephasing". In the IMF context, it seems like a euphemistic synonym, to avoid the stigma of "debt rescheduling" in the financial markets. OTOH, an obligation to the IMF is probably rightly considered distinct from other types of external financial obligations. It seems to me that generally in management, business, and economics "rephase" may be used when some connotation of "reschedule" is not appropriate. DCDuring TALK 23:43, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

RFV passed. I've adjusted the def accordingly; please take a look. —Ruakh_TALK 23:11, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Lovely. DCDuring TALK 23:42, 1 November 2010 (UTC)