share
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3.7
- noun
- /ʃɛr/
- Specialized
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acción
- And you can always sell your share in a year or two for a substantial profit.
- shares of stock
- shares in a company
- price per share
Their investment has not been in stocks and shares and bonds.
- Their investment has not been in stocks and shares and bonds.
- Ultimately, people own shares to get dividends, right?
- Let's say a company has a million shares of stock.
- And then once earnings per share are hurt, guess what?
- You don't have to buy those shares if you don't want to.
- And that problem is that companies who issue shares don't have a reputation.
- So we said, OK, we won't buy shares, we'll buy warrants.
- He has to buy the shares back and eat the loss.
- In some cases they bought up shares cheaply from their employees.
- In my case, I want to buy one single share of AT&T;.
Examples
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Your share of the budget is only 2 million.
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Speaker, the lowest deficit as a share of GDP in two decades.
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Does someone own those shares behind you or no?
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Let's say a company has a million shares of stock.
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Your stock has never sold above $31 a share.
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Since then, those shares have exploded in value.
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I've bought shares for you too.
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Jones gave Coggins one hundred shares of stock in the Canton Cotton Mill.
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The company issued new shares to raise capital for expansion.
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Investors were excited because the value of their shares increased significantly this quarter.
Synonyms
∞
3.5
A part of a company that people buy and sell
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4.2
A share in a business or project
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4.0
Shares that give part ownership of a company and usually voting rights
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3.8
A part of a company you can buy that gives part of the profit and the right to vote
Idioms
Compounds
- Archaic
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9.9
A share certificate that has no owner's name and makes the person who holds it the owner
- Specialized
A special part of a company given to the people who started it that gives extra votes
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
Share for company stock comes from the same idea of a 'part' of something, meaning one small piece of a business. That is why owning a share means you own a part of the company.