| 词汇 | watered-stock |
| 释义 | watered stock noun[ C or U ] FINANCE USukus in the past, a company's shares that were shown in its accounts at a higher value than a company’s real assets, used to deceive the authorities and possible investors: This is an industry which has never issued watered stock. Examples of watered stockwatered stock Holders of wateredstock could be personally liable if creditors foreclosed on the corporation's assets. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Thanks in large part to a proliferation of low par and no par stock, wateredstock is less of an issue these days. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. When his crop shows signs of failure he cannot reorganise, issue a batch of wateredstock, and unload his failure on the investing public. From Project Gutenberg The increase, largely made up of what is called wateredstock, has gone on until the sum of £20 million has been reached. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think it is wateredstock which has been artificially expanded. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was not a single drop of wateredstock in the company. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Neither the green goods, nor the bogus capital called wateredstock represents a dollar in real value. From Project Gutenberg In any case, there seems to be a danger of the same criticism being directed against it as against the wateredstock of companies in this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has an industry in which, for all we know to the contrary, the banks are seeking to get rid of the wateredstock which they hold. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The ants have nothing to correspond with our industrial system, with its mergers and watered stocks. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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