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common stock

noun

stock that ordinarily has no preference in the matter of dividends or assets and represents the residual ownership of a corporate business.
Animal Husbandry. stock that is not purebred.

common stock

First recorded in 1840–50

On July 31 the 150-store chain sold 18.5 million shares of common stock to the public at $18 a share.

The company announced it would sell 2.7 million shares of common stock, plus $450 million of debt, in the former of senior notes.

Are not these legitimate investments in the common stock of the nation, which should command a proportionate interest?

The Sultan of Turkey sent a generous contribution to the common stock of relief.

This quantity was thrown into common stock, and boiled with the meat, into a kind of soup.

They held their property in one common stock, for the benefit of the whole.

Among the common stock were big white beasts of pedigree which were Wesley's pride at county fairs.

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