ordinary shares

Questions about ordinary shares

What does ordinary shares mean?

ordinary shares 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 ordinary shares?

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

ordinary shares 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.