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Moody’s Corp. – ‘8-K’ for 8/2/22 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Monday, 8/8/22, at 4:32pm ET   ·   For:  8/2/22   ·   Accession #:  1193125-22-214920   ·   File #:  1-14037

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

 8/08/22  Moody’s Corp.                     8-K:8,9     8/02/22   14:540K                                   Donnelley … Solutions/FA

Current Report   —   Form 8-K

Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 8-K         Current Report                                      HTML     42K 
 2: EX-1.1      Underwriting Agreement or Conflict Minerals Report  HTML    149K 
 3: EX-4.1      Instrument Defining the Rights of Security Holders  HTML    102K 
 4: EX-5.1      Opinion of Counsel re: Legality                     HTML     13K 
 9: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     53K 
12: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     13K 
10: XML         XBRL Instance -- d299185d8k_htm                      XML     21K 
11: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX      8K 
 6: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- mco-20220802_def                 XML     42K 
 7: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- mco-20220802_lab                      XML     68K 
 8: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- mco-20220802_pre               XML     43K 
 5: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- mco-20220802                          XSD     16K 
13: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               14±    22K 
14: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001193125-22-214920-xbrl      Zip     82K

‘EX-101.DEF’   —   XBRL Definitions — mco-20220802_def

This Exhibit is an XBRL XML File.

                                                                                                                                                                                
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