watered stock
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Virtually the entire list of dramatic ventures is watered stock.
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Originally, the term was coined in the robber-baron days of the late1800s and bore connotations of watered stock, rigged markets, stolen company assets.
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Whatever has been urged against the proposed Nickel Plate merger, charges of "watered stock" or inflated capitalization have been conspicuous for their absence.
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Without that growth, Big Steel itself might have foundered in its own watered stock after the company was created by Banker Morgan at the turn of the century.
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“You don’t know what watered stock is; you’re so smart,” Pee-wee sneered.
From Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
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