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bookbuilding

bookbuilding noun: making an initial public offering (IPO) by means of a bookbuild; the process of setting the initial price of an IPO based on preliminary bids by potential investors.

Noun

bookbuilding (plural bookbuildings)

  1. Making an initial public offering (IPO) by means of a bookbuild; the process of setting the initial price of an IPO based on preliminary bids by potential investors.
    • Bookbuilding, the dominant offering mechanism for IPOs in the U.S. and other markets, is controversial because of the power it gives underwriters over IPO allocations.2010, Amit Bubna, When Bookbuilding Meets IPOs
    • The bookbuilding procedure for selling initial public offerings (IPO) to investors has captured significant market share from auction alternatives in recent years, despite the significantly lower costs related to the auction mechanism in terms of direct fees and initial underpricing.2013, Francois Degeorge, Analyst Hype in Ipos: Explaining the Popularity of Bookbuilding

Forms of bookbuilding

pluralbookbuildings
alternative formbook-building

Origin of bookbuilding

From book + building.

Questions about bookbuilding

What does bookbuilding mean?
Bookbuilding means making an initial public offering (IPO) by means of a bookbuild; the process of setting the initial price of an IPO based on preliminary bids by potential investors.
What part of speech is bookbuilding?
Bookbuilding is a noun.
What is the plural of bookbuilding?
The plural of bookbuilding is bookbuildings.

Words near bookbuilding in the dictionary

  1. bookbook
  2. bookbooks
  3. bookbreaker
  4. bookbreaking
  5. bookbuild
  6. bookbuilding
  7. bookbuildings
  8. bookbuilds
  9. bookburner
  10. bookburners
  11. bookburning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bookbuilding (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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