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publicly-held

publicly-held is the alternative spelling of publicly held.

Meaning of publicly held

Adjective

publicly held (not comparable)

  1. Of a corporation or other business entity: owned by shareholders who may buy or sell their shares to anyone through a stock exchange.

Questions about publicly-held

What is publicly-held the alternative spelling of?
Publicly-held is the alternative spelling of publicly held.

Words near publicly-held in the dictionary

  1. publicke
  2. publickly
  3. publicks
  4. publicly
  5. publicly held
  6. publicly-held
  7. publicness
  8. publics
  9. publification
  10. publifications
  11. publike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: publicly-held (page history and authors); publicly held (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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