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PREFERRED STOCK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stock whose holders are guaranteed priority in the payment of dividends but whose holders have no voting rights
Synonyms:
preference shares; preferred shares; preferred stock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("preferred stock" is a kind of...):
stock (the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "preferred stock"):
cumulative preferred; cumulative preferred stock (preferred stock whose dividends if omitted accumulate until paid out)