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Definition: Common Stock |
Common StockNoun1. Stock other than preferred stock. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Economics | A paper incorporating a part of the share capital of a business(share, participation certificate, share of a cooperative, dividend-right certificate). Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | A shares which has no special rights to dividends but which usually controls the company as it has voting rights at meetings of the company. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Securities that are evidence of proportionate equity or ownership of a corporation, and give the holder an unlimited proportionate interest in the corporation's earnings and assets after claims from creditors and the holders of preferred stock have been met. (references) | |
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Synonyms: Common StockSynonyms: common shares (n), ordinary shares (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Participation | Noun: participation; cotenancy, joint tenancy; occupancy in common, possession in common, tenancy in common; joint stock, common stock; co-partnership, partnership; communion; community of possessions, community of goods; communism, socialism; cooperation. |
Securities | Noun: securities, stocks, common stock, preferred stock, bonds, puts, calls, options, option contract, warrants, commercial paper, bearer bond, tax-exempt bond, callable bond, convertable bond. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Common Stock |
| English words defined with "common stock": blue chip, blue-chip stock ♦ classified stock, common stock equivalent, convertible, convertible security, corporate bond ♦ earning per share ♦ Stock gillyflower, subscription right. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "common stock": blue chip stock, busted convertible ♦ certificate of option ♦ fixed-income equivalent ♦ Nasdaq Stock Market, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation, National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System ♦ return on common equity ♦ senior securities, stated conversion price, stock purchase warrant. (references) |
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Charles Caleb Colton | Theories are private property, but truth is common stock. |
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John Locke | 1690 | And if he also bartered away plums, that would have rotted in a week, for nuts that would last good for his eating a whole year, he did no injury; he wasted not the common stock; destroyed no part of the portion of goods that belonged to others, so long as nothing perished uselesly in his hands. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Common stock can be used interchangeably with the term capital stock when the company has no preferred stock. (references) | |
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Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | I propose tax changes to encourage people to invest in America's future, and their own, through a plan that gives moderate-income families income tax benefits if they make long-term investments in common stock in American companies. |
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Expressions using "common stock": common stock equivalent ♦ diversified common stock fund. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
common stock | 58 |
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common stock value | 3 |
common stock valuation | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "common stock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vaerdipapirer der repraesenterer kapitalinteresse (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), stamaktie (capital share, capital stock, common share, equity, ordinary share, ordinary stock), ordinaer aktie (common share, equity, ordinary share, ordinary stock), kapitalandel (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), anpartsbevis (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), A-aktie (common share, equity, ordinary share, ordinary stock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | participatiebewijs (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock, unit, unit issued by a collective investment undertaking), gewoon aandeel (common share, equity, ordinary share, ordinary stock), effect dat het karakter van een deelname heeft (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), bewijs van deelneming (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | diversifioitu sijoitusyhtiö (diversified common stock fund). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | titre de participation, titre ayant un caractère de participation, papier de participation, action ordinaire (common share). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wertpapiere die Beteiligungscharakter haben (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), Wertpapier mit Beteiligungscharakter (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), Stammaktie (original stock), Beteiligungstitel (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), Beteiligungspapier (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοινή μετοχή (A-share, common share, equity, ordinary share, ordinary stock), συμμετοχικοί τίτλοι (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), νομικός τίτλος (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), τίτλοι συμμετοχής (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), τίτλοι μετοχικού κεφαλαίου (A-share, common share, equity, ordinary share, ordinary stock), τίτλος συμμετοχής συμμετοχικός τίτλος (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | törzsrészvény (common share, founder's share, original share). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | titolo di partecipazione (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), titoli aventi carattere di partecipazione (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), azione ordinaria (A-share, common share, equity, ordinary share, ordinary stock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ommoncay ockstay títulos que possuem um carácter de participação (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), título de participação (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), título com carácter de participação (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), acção ordinaria (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), acção ordinária (A-share, common share, equity, ordinary share, ordinary stock). (various references) обыкновенный акция. (various references) título participativo (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), título de participación (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), título con carácter de participación (equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, security of a participating nature, stock), acción ordinaria (A-share, common share, equity, equity paper, equity security, ordinary share, ordinary stock, security of a participating nature, stock). (various references) adi hisse senedi (ordinary share), adi aksiyon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-k-m-m-n-o-o-o-s-t" | |
-3 letters: monocots. | |
-4 letters: cocoons, commons, monocot. | |
-5 letters: cocoon, common, contos, nostoc. | |
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