Definition of "sterilised" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of sterilise. (verb)

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• "This has been dubbed "sterilised" QE or "Operation Twist", after a 1960s programme in which the Treasury and the Fed tried to "twist" the yield curve by altering the pattern of Treasury-bond issuance."
• "The ECB insists that its bond purchases are "sterilised" - meaning that they do not add stimulus or constitute quantitative easing - but this is a disputed point."
• "It was also suggested that not all the bond purchases would be sterilised, which is not what markets had been led to believe."