blue chip stock

1. A term used to describe stocks of high-quality, financially sound corporations.

“Blue chip” suggests a safe investment.

Example Sentences

An icon of the aviation age, Boeing is the largest manufacturing exporter in the United States, a blue chip stock and a major employer.

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The person who would rather buy the speculative investment over the blue chip stock is playing the lottery with stocks.

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Germany’s DAX blue chip stock index hit a record high Jan. 7.

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An industrial icon, Boeing is the largest manufacturing exporter in the United States, one of the federal government’s biggest contractors, a blue chip stock and a major employer whose fortunes help shape the national economy.

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Thanks to my father’s union-negotiated pension and my uncle’s blue chip stock, they both lived comfortably in their retirement.

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