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IPO

IPO is the initialism of initial public offering.

IPO is the initialism of Intellectual Property Office.

IPO is the initialism of Independent Party of Oregon.

Meaning of initial public offering

Noun

initial public offering (plural phrase, abbreviation IPO)

  1. (phrase, plural) The first offering to members of the public of stock in a company, normally followed by a listing of that stock on a stock exchange.
    Synonyms:
    flotation

Verb

IPO (third-person singular simple present IPOs, present participle IPOing, simple past and past participle IPOed or IPO'ed or IPO-ed)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To launch an initial public offering, to go public.
    • OnX recently IPO'ed at $7.50 per share, quickly rose to $10.50 per share and then drifted down to about $5 per share.2000, Patrick Doucette, Making a Fortune in Canadian Stocks: How to Get Started on the Road to Wealth with Canadian Equities, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 51
    • @大学生讲坛 tweets, “A stock market investor asks Hades, ‘What level of hell is this?’ Hades replies, ‘The 18th.’ The investor tears up out of happiness, ‘Finally I've managed to buy at the bottom!’ Hades looks at him with a smile, ‘Don't you know that hell has IPOed and expanded to 36 levels?’”2012 October 1, Rachel Lu, “Gallows Humor: The Dark Jokes of Weibo as China's Stock Market Tanked”, in The Atlantic

Forms of IPO

Noun
pluralIPOs
Verb
third-person singular presentIPOs
present participleIPOing
past participleIPOed
pastIPOed
past participleIPO'ed
pastIPO'ed
past participleIPO-ed
pastIPO-ed

Questions about IPO

What does IPO mean?
IPO means to launch an initial public offering, to go public.
What is IPO the initialism of?
IPO is the initialism of initial public offering.
What part of speech is IPO?
IPO is a verb.
What is the past tense of IPO?
The past tense of IPO is IPOed.

Words near IPO in the dictionary

  1. IPMs
  2. IPMSM
  3. IPNI
  4. ipnopid
  5. ipnopids
  6. IPO
  7. IPO'ed
  8. IPO-ed
  9. Ipock
  10. Ipocks
  11. ipocras

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Adapted from Wiktionary: IPO (page history and authors); initial public offering (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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