ordinary share

American  

noun

1. British. a share of common stock.

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Etymology

Origin of ordinary share

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

The company proposed a dividend of 5.20 euros an ordinary share and 5.26 euros a preferred share, down from the 6.30 euros and 6.36 euros it paid in the previous year, respectively.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 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 private equity group offered 287p per Morrisons ordinary share, against a rival bid from Fortress, for 286p per share.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2021

Mr. Burnett has contributed various poems to the literature of the country, which have stamped him as being possessed of a more than ordinary share of the divine afflatus.

From Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive by Burnett, Alf