common stock
Americannoun
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stock that ordinarily has no preference in the matter of dividends or assets and represents the residual ownership of a corporate business.
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Animal Husbandry. stock that is not purebred.
noun
Etymology
Origin of common stock
First recorded in 1840–50
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Anthropic unveils a new Class F common stock in its IPO prospectus, giving its seven co-founders majority control of the AI company.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom have indicated interest in purchasing up to $5 billion worth of common stock in the offering, Meta said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Musk is SpaceX’s top shareholder, with 82.4% of the voting power of its common stock.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
The Ellison family owns 77.5% of Paramount’s voting Class A common stock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The child learns such words as parts of the common stock of speech, or even as parts of his mother-tongue, just as he does the words 'father,' 'mother,' 'bread,' 'milk.'
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
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