lockaway
lockaway noun: a long-term investment to be left alone until some future time.
Noun
lockaway (plural lockaways)
- A long-term investment to be left alone until some future time.
- For the investor, the indications are that the shares of soundly managed important airframe makers are the best current aircraft industry buys for long term lockaways.1955, Aircraft, volume 34, page 30
- He thinks investment trusts should be viewed as long-term lockaways, which can be held almost indefinitely, so he steers clear of more aggressively managed trusts.1997, Investors Chronicle, volume 122, numbers 1548-1558, page 62
Forms of lockaway
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Origin of lockaway
Deverbal from lock away.
Questions about lockaway
- What does lockaway mean?
- Lockaway means a long-term investment to be left alone until some future time.
- What part of speech is lockaway?
- Lockaway is a noun.
- What is the plural of lockaway?
- The plural of lockaway is lockaways.
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