stock options

1. The right to purchase a company's shares at a future date at an agreed price. Companies often give stock options to their executives as an incentive to improve the company's performance and boost its share price. If the share price has risen above the agreed price of the option by the time the option is exercised, the executive stands to make a considerable profit.

Example Sentences

Shi says she “has suffered emotional distress, lost wages, and lost benefits, including stock options.”

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No one can predict in advance what stock options will be worth.

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Stock options in an unproven startup--no matter how bullish you are!

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And that's just salary--it's not stock options or shares of profits.

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It was in the payment, since instead of taking cash in the thousands, he took stock options then worth only thousands.

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