stock of record

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   stock held by stockholders of record on a given date

   Broadercommon stock

Questions about stock of record

What does stock of record mean?

stock of record means "stock held by stockholders of record on a given date".

Is stock of record a common word?

stock of record 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.