stock option

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noun

an option giving the holder, usually an officer or employee, the right to buy stock of the issuing corporation at a specific price within a stated period.

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Origin of stock option

First recorded in 1940–45

Words nearby stock option

stock ledger, stockless, stock lock, stockman, stock market, stock option, stock options, stockout, stockowner, stockpile, Stockport

How to use stock option in a sentence

For tech founders, the ability to shift their businesses quickly, hiring and firing as needed and paying workers with stock options instead of offering traditional salaries and benefits, is key to success.
Six things to know about the latest efforts to bring unions to Big Tech|Gerrit De Vynck, Nitasha Tiku, Jay Greene|January 26, 2021|Washington Post
In addition to his 20% stake in the automaker, he’s sitting on about $42 billion of unrealized paper gains on vested stock options.
Elon Musk beats Jeff Bezos to become world’s richest person|rhhackettfortune|January 7, 2021|Fortune
He also has some $42 billion in vested stock options, according to SEC filings.
Elon Musk has a new title: world’s richest person|Kirsten Korosec|January 7, 2021|TechCrunch
Including employee stock options and restricted share units, Affirm would have a valuation of more than $11 billion, the filing showed.
Online lender Affirm to be valued as high as $9.2 billion in planned IPO|Verne Kopytoff|January 5, 2021|Fortune

That’s how much Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman earns every month in the form of stock options in his cloud-computing company, which has been one of the hottest names on Wall Street since its September IPO.
Sagging job gains can’t keep U.S. markets from record highs|reymashayekhi|December 5, 2020|Fortune
I understand that this is human trafficking, but I know that my people have no other option.
Ghost Ships of the Mediterranean|Barbie Latza Nadeau|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
This simply is not an option for ACC to source indeterminately.
Exclusive: U.S. Drone Fleet at ‘Breaking Point,’ Air Force Says|Dave Majumdar|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Judging from current figures, there would be a substantial demand for this option, too.
Men Will Someday Have Kids Without Women|Samantha Allen|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In all likelihood this last option is what we will get for the foreseeable future.
In the Middle East, the Two-State Solution Is Dead|Dean Obeidallah|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In our headlong quest for a legally perfect society, we don’t take the time to take stock of what‘s been created so far.
Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans|Philip K. Howard|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Neither privately owned nor government stock is entitled to voting power.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
I didn't take much stock in the yarn at the time, but I'm beginning to think he had it straight.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
One day she had heard a man say, "If there is a drought we shall have the devil to pay with our stock before winter is over."
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
Cotton exchanges reopened on November 16, and stock exchanges opened for restricted trading shortly thereafter.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
The white ranchmen in the valley were all fencing in their lands; no more free running of stock.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson