to go public
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4.8
- phrasal verb
- /ɡoʊ ˈpʌblɪk/
- Specialized
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- Investors are excited because the firm will go public next month, allowing them to buy shares.
Well, we're recently public and, you know, we went public during the pandemic.
- Well, we're recently public and, you know, we went public during the pandemic.
- It may not be the best time right now to go public in Hong Kong either.
- At that point, didn't we talk about if like if TikTok went public, would you buy stock in it?
- bank and we'll also see Birkenstocks first earnings report since it went public last year.
- A good example of this is the way that Facebook went public with a multiple share class structure.
- Now a single VC backed IPO was profitable when it went public.
- The Trump Media Group is going public under ticker symbol DWAC.
- So partly this is to your point about going public.
Examples
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After several years of growth, the company is finally ready to go public on the stock market.
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The tech startup plans to go public by the end of the year to raise funds for expansion.
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You have to either go public or get sold.
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After that, you will go public with the truth about the operation.
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We're about to go public.
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Has he decided to go public?
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Typically, a Canadian company might go public at ten dollars a share.
Academic text (1999) -
Later Snap went public selling shares with no voting rights whatsoever.
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Royal Pacific is the first salmon farm to go public on the Vancouver stock market.
Academic text (1990) -
But after Netscape went public, the idea of infinite growth online gained.
Academic text (2016)
How Public
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'go' (become) + 'public' (open/nonprivate) make the general idea 'become public' relatively transparent, so a learner could guess it involves changing from private to public visibility. However, the specific financial sense — starting to sell shares via an IPO — is a specialized business meaning that is not fully predictable from the words alone and may require domain knowledge, so the MWE is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Go public comes from the image of a private company stepping out of a closed room into a busy town square, literally go out and be public, so everyone can see it. So, 'go public' means 'to start selling shares to the public'.