letter stock

noun

unregistered stock sold privately by a company so as not to have a negative effect on the price of its publicly traded stock.

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A noteworthy oddity is how Facebook convinced NASDAQ, the land of the four letter stock symbol, to let them list there with a two letter FB moniker usually reserved for the NYSE.