Shares
111ordinary shares — N PLURAL Ordinary shares are shares in a company that are owned by people who have a right to vote at the company s meetings and to receive part of the company s profits after the holders of preference shares have been paid. Compare preference… …
112preference shares — N PLURAL Preference shares are shares in a company that are owned by people who have the right to receive part of the company s profits before the holders of ordinary shares are paid. They also have the right to have their capital repaid if the… …
113accumulating shares — Additional ordinary shares issued to holders of ordinary shares in a company, instead of a dividend. Accumulating shares are a way of replacing annual income with capital growth; they avoid income tax but not capital gains tax. Usually tax is… …
114accumulating shares — Additional ordinary shares issued to holders of ordinary shares in a company, instead of a dividend. Accumulating shares are a way of replacing annual income with capital growth; they avoid income tax but not capital gains tax. Usually tax is… …
115A shares — / eɪ ʃeəz/ plural noun ordinary shares with limited voting rights or no voting rights at all COMMENT: A company may be set up with two classes of share: ‘A’ shares, which are available to the general investor, and ‘B’ shares which are only bought …
116preference shares — / pref(ə)rəns ʃeəz/ plural noun shares (often with no voting rights) which receive their dividend before all other shares and are repaid first (at face value) if the company goes into liquidation (NOTE: The US term is preferred stock.) COMMENT:… …
117preference shares — noun stock whose holders are guaranteed priority in the payment of dividends but whose holders have no voting rights • Syn: ↑preferred stock, ↑preferred shares • Hypernyms: ↑stock • Hyponyms: ↑cumulative preferred, ↑cumulativ …
118deferred shares — plural noun Shares not entitling the holder to a full share of profits, and sometimes to none at all, until the expiration of a specified time or the occurrence of some event • • • Main Entry: ↑defer * * * deferred shares, stock shares not… …
119Granger shares — Granger stocks Granger stocks or Granger shares Granger shares Stocks or shares of the granger railroads. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …
120To go shares — Share Share, n. [OE. share, AS. scearu, scaru, fr. sceran to shear, cut. See {Shear}, v.] 1. A certain quantity; a portion; a part; a division; as, a small share of prudence. [1913 Webster] 2. Especially, the part allotted or belonging to one, of …
