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ESOP

Definition: ESOP

ESOP

Noun

1. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ESOP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: ESOP

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

ESOP

EnglishExpert System Open PropositionalN/A

ESOP

SpanishPrograma ESOPFinance

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: ESOP

Synonym: employee stock ownership plan (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: ESOP

Specialty definitions using "ESOP": LPGPilpay'. (references)

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Modern Usage: ESOP

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Esop (1982)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: ESOP

DomainTitle

Books

  • ESOP Workbook: The Ultimate Instrument in Succession Planning (reference)

  • ESOP: The Ultimate Instrument in Succession Planning, 2nd Edition and ESOP Workbook (reference)

  • Programming Languages and Systems - Esop '96: 6th European Symposium on Programming Linkoping, Sweden, April 22-24, 1996: Proceedings (Lecture notes (reference)

  • Transitioning Ownership in the Private Company : The ESOP Solution (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ESOP

"ESOP" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "ESOP" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)71.43%5157,705
Noun (proper)14.29%1339,140
Noun (common)14.29%1339,140
                    Total100.00%7N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ESOP

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

esop

194

esop software

3

401k erisa esop pension

128

distribution esop

3

air canada esop fastraksys.com

27

esop plan termination

2

401k erisa esop pension pension

23

esop law

2

esop association

16

leveraged esop

2

esop plan

14

air canada esop

2

esop freezing

10

appreciation esop net termination unrealized

2

esop valuation

5

esop lawyer

2

esop financing

5

esop funding

2

appreciation employer esop plan securities termination unrealized

3

action esop letter no sec

2

corp esop s

3

company esop may

2

esop option stock

3

company esop may

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ESOP

Language Translations for "ESOP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

medarbejderaktieordning (employee stock ownership plan). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

werknemersparticipatieplan (employee stock ownership plan). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

palkansaajarahastosuunnitelma ESOP (employee stock ownership plan). (various references)

   

French

  

Programme européen Océan subpolaire. (various references)

   

German

  

Mitarbeiterbeteiligungsplan (employee stock ownership plan). (various references)

   

Italian

  

piano ESOP (employee stock ownership plan), piano di diffusione del capitale azionario ai dipendenti (employee stock ownership plan). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

esopay

   

Spanish

  

ESOP (employee stock ownership plan), Employee Stock Ownership Plan (employee stock ownership plan), programa ESOP (employee stock ownership plan). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: ESOP

Derivations

Words beginning with "ESOP": esophageal, esophagi, esophagus, esophaguses. (additional references)

Words ending with "ESOP": winesop. (additional references)

Words containing "ESOP": gastroesophageal, mesopause, mesopauses, mesopelagic, mesophyl, mesophyll, mesophyllic, mesophyllous, mesophylls, mesophyls, mesophyte, mesophytes, mesophytic, oesophagi, oesophagus, winesops. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ESOP

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: epos, opes, peso, pose.

Words within the letters "e-o-p-s"

-1 letter: oes, ope, ops, ose, pes, sop.

-2 letters: es, oe, op, os, pe, so.

 Words containing the letters "e-o-p-s"
 

+1 letter: copes, copse, dopes, estop, expos, hopes, lopes, mopes, opens, paseo, peons, pepos, pesos, pesto, poems, poesy, poets, poise, pokes, poles, pomes, pones, popes, pores, posed, poser, poses, posse, poxes, prose, psoae, repos, ropes, scope, sepoy, slope, spode, spoke, spore, stope, topes.

 

+2 letters: appose, aslope, bebops, copens, copers, copies, copses, corpse, coupes, depose, depots, despot, dopers, elopes, ephods, ephors, epochs, epodes, eposes, estops, expose, gospel, gropes, hopers, impose, joseph, kopeks, kopjes, lopers, loupes, mopeds, mopers, myopes, netops, operas, opines, oppose, opuses, osprey, ouphes, paeons, pareos, paseos, pedros, pekoes, pengos, peones, peplos, person, pestos, phones, pilose, pogeys, pogies, poised, poiser, poises, pokers, pokeys, pokies, poleis, polers, polies, ponces, ponies, pontes, pooves, popsie, porose, posers, poseur, posher, posies, posses, posset, posted, poster, potsie, powers, presto, probes, proems, proles, prosed, proser, proses, proves, pseudo, ptoses, pyoses, rebops, repose, repots, repros, respot, ropers, sapote, scoped, scopes, sepoys, sexpot, shoppe, sloped, sloper, slopes, soaped, soaper, sopite, sopped, souped, speedo, splore, spodes, spoked, spoken, spokes, sponge, spored, spores, spouse, stoped, stoper, stopes, tempos, tepoys, topees, topers, tophes, tropes, uprose.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ESOP


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 53 4F 50

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    ...    ---    .--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01010011 01001111 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#83 &#79 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0053 004F 0050

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39534950

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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