ordinary share
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ordinary share
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, earnings per ordinary share are expected to range from a decline of 2.6% to an increase of 6.4%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The company proposed a dividend of 2.56 euros per preference share and 2,554 euros per ordinary share.
From Reuters ● Mar. 23, 2023
I admired, more than I enjoyed, this folk-horror fable set in the lush rural landscapes of 19th-century Macedonia, where the supernatural and the ordinary share a fraught coexistence.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2022
The CD&R private equity group won the auction early in October with an offer of 287p per Morrisons ordinary share, against a rival bid from Fortress, for 286p per share.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2021
Besides its ordinary share in the vicissitudes and calamities of the war, his town of Aberdeen was twice pillaged by Montrose, with laudable impartiality—once for the Covenanters and once for the Royalists.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton
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