Freddie Mac

Freddie Mac

noun
1.
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.
2.
a publicly traded security that represents participation in a pool of mortgages guaranteed by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.

Origin:
1970–75; from the initials FHLMC, on the model of Fannie Mae

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Freddie Mac
by 1992, vaguely from Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.
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