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stock watering

noun

  1. commerce the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The first way that shorts benefit from stock watering is that millions of new shares become available to sell short.

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The stock watering plan also reminds us that savvy investors and investment bankers make money when stocks fall and rise.

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The water rights in question were issued to WSU in 1962 for domestic and community domestic use and for stock watering.

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"For the rural water supply the water will be well suited for irrigation and stock watering, the possibilities that we open with this alternative resource are quite massive." he explains.

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There is, however, a system of inflation practiced by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company which is simply a new form of bond and stock watering.

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