ordinary stock

American  

noun

1. British. common stock.

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Etymology

Origin of ordinary stock

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

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

But deciding when the cards have been improperly marked -- and, above all, proving it -- is no mean feat, since rumor, innuendo and split-second inference are the stuff of ordinary stock trading.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet there is something in these stories which there is not in the ordinary stock comedies of that day: an indefinable flavour of emphasis and richness, a hint as of infinity of fun.

From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)