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capital stock
noun
- the total stock authorized or issued by a corporation.
- the book value of the outstanding shares of a corporation, including retained earnings and amounts paid in by stockholders.
capital stock
noun
- the par value of the total share capital that a company is authorized to issue
- the total physical capital existing in an economy at any moment of time
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Word History and Origins
Origin of capital stock1
First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences
After the testator's death the corporation was authorized by statute to increase its capital stock.
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Studebaker's wagons are famous and the firm controls capital stock amounting to a million of dollars.
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Thus Armour in 1916 raised its capital stock from twenty millions to one hundred millions without receiving a dollar more of cash.
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In the case of the other four companies the earned rate on common capital stock is much lower—from 27 per cent.
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Mr. Rockefeller controls about eighty or ninety millions of capital stock in the Standard Oil Trust.
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