Adjective : a variable-rate mortgage.    From Dictionary.com. 

Auctions of variable-rate municipals have been faltering.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Answers Yet] Reference

But variable-rate debt has effectively hamstrung the agency.    From Wordnik.com.  [State Housing Agencies Get Caught in Credit Crunch] Reference

Last week the market for variable-rate muni bonds seized up.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Answers Yet] Reference

Almost three-quarters of the colleges sell variable-rate debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colleges Looking to Close Books on Debt] Reference

What is an advantage of a fixed-rate mortgage over a variable-rate mortgage?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Financial Test: Has Steve Taught Isaac Well?] Reference

Many students have had to rely on variable-rate private loans to fill the gap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Credit Crunch Hits] Reference

They don't have to take an interest-only or a variable-rate loan to get into a home.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2006] Reference

If you're paying 16 percent on your balances, you probably have a variable-rate card.    From Wordnik.com.  [RAISING HELL IN DEBTVILLE] Reference

Many ARPS still carry a triple-A rating, as do many variable-rate bonds and municipal bonds.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Answers Yet] Reference

Some 95% of Spanish mortgage-holders have variable-rate loans vulnerable to rising credit costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Woes Further Strain Europe] Reference

Most corporate variable-rate borrowing, for example, is based off the London interbank offered rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bold Lady of Threadneedle Street] Reference

But it is unclear whether Australian banks will be able to pass on any cuts to variable-rate mortgages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australian Wholesale Borrowing Costs Near Highs] Reference

More rate increases are expected, no small matter in a market where variable-rate mortgages are the norm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riding Korea's Property Waves] Reference

That's a 12-year high, and it has elicited yelps from homeowners, most of whom have variable-rate mortgages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stevens v. Bernanke] Reference

Look to trade in that option loan for a fixed-rate loan or a more stable variable-rate loan if you can qualify.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortgages: Rates on the Rise] Reference

So opt for a variable-rate plan if you don't mind rolling the dice and dealing with prices that fluctuate monthly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q&A: Which type of pricing plan should I choose for the natural gas I use at my home?] Reference

By issuing variable-rate debt, states could lower their borrowing costs and more effectively compete for borrowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [State Housing Agencies Get Caught in Credit Crunch] Reference

Some state agencies also are grappling with the disappearance of variable-rate bonds, once a major source of funding.    From Wordnik.com.  [State Housing Agencies Get Caught in Credit Crunch] Reference

Even many financial experts are not confident that they understand all the features of their variable-rate mortgages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disclosure Is the Best Kind] Reference

And a one-year variable-rate mortgage was 4.18 percent in 2004, a decline of more than 40 percent in just four years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gas and Interest Rates: The Issues That Matter] Reference

This time, though, the banks removed some of the weak links from auction-rate securities and variable-rate demand bonds.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Security Shifts Risk to Borrower] Reference

Commercial banks began lowering their prime interest rates, to which some variable-rate loans are tied, to 5.25% from 6%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Credit Worries Ease as Fed] Reference

This roiled the market for short-term municipal-bond debt including auction-rate securities and variable-rate demand notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crunch, From Alabama to Stocks] Reference

When rates are rising, companies prefer variable-rate cards, which let them more quickly raise the rates charged to consumers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capital One Puts Fixed Rates on Some Cards] Reference

The prime rate is going down, and that applies to a lot of variable-rate mortgage products and loan products that individuals have.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2008] Reference

Complicating matters, many colleges entered into arrangements that let them, in effect, pay fixed rates on their variable-rate bonds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colleges Looking to Close Books on Debt] Reference

Among the worst-hit are municipalities that issued variable-rate bonds, a type of long-term debt that pays short-term interest rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Muni Market Takes Heart From Success by California] Reference

Ascension is paying 0.5% interest on the notes, higher than the 0.15% rate its existing variable-rate debt fetches on the open market.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Security Shifts Risk to Borrower] Reference

In 2006, variable-rate debt comprised 35% of all debt issued by state housing agencies, up from 21% in 2003, according to Fitch Ratings.    From Wordnik.com.  [State Housing Agencies Get Caught in Credit Crunch] Reference

Each year, the interest rates on variable-rate Stafford and PLUS loans reset July 1 based on May's final auction of 91-day Treasury bills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lock In Savings] Reference

Philadelphia benefited from its swap and variable-rate debt issue in 2003 until the end of 2007, said Joe Clare, deputy water commissioner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philadelphia Bonds Benefit Others] Reference

Unable to find a fixed-rate mortgage when his construction loan expired last fall, Mr. Zipkin now has a variable-rate loan that adjusts monthly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jumbo Mortgages, Jumbo Headaches] Reference

But the high level of variable-rate mortgages in the U.K. gives the central bank a stronger lever than in many countries to take the heat off consumers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bold Lady of Threadneedle Street] Reference

In November, Moody's downgraded the debt of Simmons College, a women's school in Boston, to Baa1 from A3, citing risks associated with variable-rate debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colleges Looking to Close Books on Debt] Reference

But the average rate since 1998 on a standard variable-rate U.K. mortgage is 6.64%, not that much higher than the 6.27% average rate on a Freddie 30-year, fixed mortgage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taming the Two-Headed Monster] Reference