employee stock ownership plan

1. 1.

   a program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company

   SynonymsESOP

   Broaderstock purchase plan

Questions about employee stock ownership plan

What does employee stock ownership plan mean?

employee stock ownership plan means "a program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company".

What is another word for employee stock ownership plan?

Close synonyms include ESOP. 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 employee stock ownership plan a common word?

employee stock ownership plan 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.