blue-chip stock

1. 1.

   a common stock of a nationally known company whose value and dividends are reliable; typically have high price and low yield

   “blue chips are usually safe investments”

   Synonymsblue chip

   Broadercommon stock

Questions about blue-chip stock

What does blue-chip stock mean?

blue-chip stock means "a common stock of a nationally known company whose value and dividends are reliable; typically have high price and low yield".

What is another word for blue-chip stock?

Close synonyms include blue chip. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blue-chip stock a common word?

blue-chip stock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.