INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does initial public offering mean? 

• INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING (noun)
  The noun INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING has 1 sense:

1. a corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public

  Familiarity information: INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

initial offering; initial public offering; IPO

Hypernyms ("initial public offering" is a kind of...):

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))