common stock

1. 1.

   stock other than preferred stock; entitles the owner to a share of the corporation's profits and a share of the voting power in shareholder elections

   “over 40 million Americans invest in common stocks”

   Synonymscommon sharesordinary shares

   Broaderstock

   Narrowerblue chipclassified stockstock of record

Questions about common stock

What does common stock mean?

common stock means "stock other than preferred stock; entitles the owner to a share of the corporation's profits and a share of the voting power in shareholder elections".

What is another word for common stock?

Close synonyms include common shares, ordinary shares. 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 common stock a common word?

common 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.