stock watering

noun

1. commerce the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets

Example Sentences

But simple modifications of its anti-stock-watering laws seemed to have solved the difficulty.

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These will be fully described in our second volume in connection with stock-watering, valuation and allied financial problems.

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Indeed, it can be shown that stock-watering reached a still higher degree of development in the case of the Erie road.

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But the science of stock-watering did not reach its fullest development until during the period of railroad consolidation.

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Stock-watering is to be prohibited; and publicity of rates to be brought about.

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