VOTING STOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does voting stock mean? 

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

1. shares in a corporation that entitle the shareholder to voting and proxy rights

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOTING STOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shares in a corporation that entitle the shareholder to voting and proxy rights

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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

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

 Context examples 

An offshore company in which a U.S. person owns 10 percent or more of a foreign corporation or in which 50 percent or more of the total voting stock is owned by U.S. shareholders collectively or 10 percent or more of the voting control is owned by U.S. persons which is treated by the IRS as a U.S. tax reporting entity.

(Controlled Foreign Corporation, NCI Thesaurus)