ordinary stock
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ordinary stock
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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The shares can be turned into ordinary stock later, and their value can change before a listing.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
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
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
“But most of them are not common equity,” he said, referring to the definition of core capital set by the Basel committee, which mainly includes a bank’s ordinary stock and retained earnings.
From BusinessWeek ● Apr. 7, 2011
I had done with Ernest’s money as with my own—that is to say I had let it alone after investing it in Midland ordinary stock according to Miss Pontifex’s instructions.
From The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
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