ordinary stock
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ordinary stock
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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However, he’s sold his longstanding holding in Samsung Electronics in favor of its preferred shares, which normally track closely but have lagged behind the ordinary stock during the boom this year, and particularly since April.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
He dismissed the claims by investors who bought BP ordinary stock, saying his court has no jurisdiction over them.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 13, 2012
His Galleon Group funds, they said, became a multibillion-dollar success at the expense of ordinary stock investors who didn't have advance notice of the earnings of public companies and of mergers and acquisitions.
From Salon ● May 26, 2011
Common equity, which includes mainly a banks’ ordinary stock and retained earnings, is “the key” to enable systemic banks to “absorb losses with certainty, thus reducing the probability of failure,” he said.
From BusinessWeek ● Apr. 6, 2011
I then sold at £129 per share and invested in London and North-Western ordinary stock, which I was advised was more likely to rise than Midlands now were.
From The Way of All Flesh by Butler, Samuel
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