Definition of "pean" [pean•pe•an]

• Variant of paean. (noun)

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• "With European banks still hungry for dollars, it is attractive for Euro pean companies to borrow in dollars and swap the proceeds back to euros, reducing their cost of funding."
• "But if corporate liquidation, Euro-pean-style, is so punitive, why does America encourage individuals to liquidate — letting them trade the assets they have on hand for a full discharge — rather than making them work off as much of their debt as possible?"
• "One cannot count on Jacques Martinez to sing the bad pean to the «death» or «decrepitude» of art, this « thing of the past , like the Sunday Hegelians -- he doesn't believe in it anymore than he does, say, in the death of human beings 'desire for transcendence."