split up
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6.8
- noun
- Specialized
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desdoblamiento de acciones
- Following the split-up, shareholders received additional shares, increasing their total equity without a cash outlay.
Examples
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"Spice Girls split up."
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Split up.
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Split up!
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The company's split-up into several smaller firms helped boost its overall market value.
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Investors were excited about the potential gains from the stock split-up announced by the board of directors.
Synonyms
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7.2
When a company gives people who own its shares more shares without changing value
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5.5
A change by a company that gives each owner more shares while keeping their total value the same
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
split + up
The verb 'split' conveys division and the particle 'up' commonly adds a sense of separation or increase, so a learner who knows both words could infer this is about dividing something into more parts (i.e. shares). However, the specific financial nuance that the total equity/value remains unchanged despite increasing the number of outstanding shares is technical and not fully predictable from the constituents alone, so the phrase is only partially transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Split up as a business term comes from the idea of one share being cut into more shares, like breaking a chocolate bar into pieces. Each owner has more pieces but the total value stays the same, so a 'split up' means more shares without changing the total value.