RIGHTS ISSUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rights issue mean? 

• RIGHTS ISSUE (noun)
  The noun RIGHTS ISSUE has 1 sense:

1. an offering of common stock to existing shareholders who hold subscription rights or pre-emptive rights that entitle them to buy newly issued shares at a discount from the price at which they will be offered to the public later

  Familiarity information: RIGHTS ISSUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIGHTS ISSUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An offering of common stock to existing shareholders who hold subscription rights or pre-emptive rights that entitle them to buy newly issued shares at a discount from the price at which they will be offered to the public later

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

rights issue; rights offering

Context example:

the investment banker who handles a rights offering usually agrees to buy any shares not bought by shareholders

Hypernyms ("rights issue" is a kind of...):

offer; offering (something offered (as a proposal or bid))