TREASURY STOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does treasury stock mean? 

• TREASURY STOCK (noun)
  The noun TREASURY STOCK has 1 sense:

1. stock that has been bought back by the issuing corporation and is available for retirement or resale; it is issued but not outstanding; it cannot vote and pays no dividends

  Familiarity information: TREASURY STOCK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREASURY STOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stock that has been bought back by the issuing corporation and is available for retirement or resale; it is issued but not outstanding; it cannot vote and pays no dividends

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

reacquired stock; treasury shares; treasury stock

Hypernyms ("treasury stock" is a kind of...):

stock (the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity))