reverse split

1. 1.

   a decrease in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity

   Synonymsreverse stock splitsplit down

   Broaderdecrease

Questions about reverse split

What does reverse split mean?

reverse split means "a decrease in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity".

What is another word for reverse split?

Close synonyms include reverse stock split, split down. 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 reverse split a common word?

reverse split 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.