Modifies a noun

• maker: Gilt-edged market makers may bid by telephone to the Bank of England not later than 10.30 am on Wednesday, 29 October 1997.

• chance: It could have been even better for the Hornets had they taken a gilt-edged chance at the start of the second half.

• security: Government sale of large amounts of gilt-edged securities will mean a transfer of funds from the private sector to the government.

• stock: Gilt sales raised nearly £ 40 billion in 1996, taking the value of gilt-edged stock outstanding to £ 285 billion.

• opportunity: The home side missed another gilt-edged opportunity on 70 minutes, somehow missing from little more the two yards out.

• market: In November 1994, the Bank of England adopted a new method for estimating yield curves from the gilt-edged market.