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PREFERENCE SHARES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does preference shares mean?
• PREFERENCE SHARES (noun)
The noun PREFERENCE SHARES has 1 sense:
1. stock whose holders are guaranteed priority in the payment of dividends but whose holders have no voting rights
Familiarity information: PREFERENCE SHARES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stock whose holders are guaranteed priority in the payment of dividends but whose holders have no voting rights
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
preference shares; preferred shares; preferred stock
Hypernyms ("preference shares" 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 "preference shares"):
cumulative preferred; cumulative preferred stock (preferred stock whose dividends if omitted accumulate until paid out)
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