aval

plural avals

1. businessA financial guarantee by a third party to assume the burden of a debt, especially a bill of exchange in the event of default.

1. not comparablerareOf, related to, or characteristic of a grandparent.

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   Sosrodihardjo found it hard to support his children, and the young Sukarno was sent to stay with his grandmother […] Believing that the boy had supernatural powers of healing, she put him to licking the afflicted parts of ailing villagers, and decided that he would be a clairvoyant. But alas for aval ambitions; Sukarno turned out to be a visionary of quite a different sort.

   1973, Wilfred T. Neill, Twentieth-Century Indonesia, Columbia University Press, published 1973, →ISBN, page 299

   Synonyms: grandparental

1. uncountableSynonym of flattened rice.

   Synonyms: flattened rice