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common stocks

common stocks is the plural of common stock.

Meaning of common stock

Noun

common stock (countable and uncountable, plural common stocks)

  1. Shares of an ownership interest in the equity of a corporation or other entity with limited liability entitled to dividends, with financial rights junior to preferred stock and liabilities.
    • Common stocks are trading below preferreds in these bad times.

Questions about common stocks

What is common stocks the plural of?
Common stocks is the plural of common stock.

Words near common stocks in the dictionary

  1. common St John's wort
  2. common St. John's wort
  3. common starling
  4. common starlings
  5. common stock
  6. common stocks
  7. common substantive noun
  8. common substantive nouns
  9. common succories
  10. common succory
  11. common swift

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