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oversubscribers

oversubscribers is the plural of oversubscriber.

Meaning of oversubscriber

Noun

oversubscriber (plural oversubscribers)

  1. Someone who subscribes to a larger amount of stocks than there are available.
    • When there is no investment banker acting as the residual buyer, and there is the probability that at least some of the stockholders will fail to either exercise or sell their rights, the risk exists that some of the stock will remain unsold. This danger can be eliminated by making available more...1996, Frank J. Fabozzi, Franco Modigliani, Capital Markets: Institutions and Instruments, second edition, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 136

Questions about oversubscribers

What is oversubscribers the plural of?
Oversubscribers is the plural of oversubscriber.

Words near oversubscribers in the dictionary

  1. overstylized
  2. oversublime
  3. oversubscribe
  4. oversubscribed
  5. oversubscriber
  6. oversubscribers
  7. oversubscribes
  8. oversubscribing
  9. oversubscription
  10. oversubscriptions
  11. oversubsidize

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