stock warrant

1. 1.

   a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price

   “as a sweetener they offered warrants along with the fixed-income securities”

   Synonymswarrantstock-purchase warrant

   Broadersecurity

   Narrowerperpetual warrantsubscription warrant
2. 2.

   a written certificate that gives the holder the right to purchase shares of a stock for a specified price within a specified period of time

   Broaderguarantee

Questions about stock warrant

What does stock warrant mean?

stock warrant means "a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for stock warrant?

Close synonyms include warrant, stock-purchase warrant. 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 stock warrant a common word?

stock warrant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.