IPO
initial public offering: a company's first stock offering to the public.
Origin of IPO
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How to use IPO in a sentence
So $1,000 invested in any of these hot, blue-chip, name-brand IPOs would have been worth nothing a few years later.
One could just as easily have constructed a chart of really hot tech IPOs that wound up worthless.
So far this year, there have been 22 tech IPOs, which raised $3.2 billion between them.
The Wall Street Journal noted Monday that technology firms account for only 16 percent of IPOs this year.
Last year, there were 257 American IPOs; so far this year, only 132.
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British Dictionary definitions for IPO
independent publicly owned company
stock exchange initial public offering
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Cultural definitions for IPO
Abbreviation for initial public offering; the first issuance of shares in itself by a public company.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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