preferred stock

NOUN

stock which takes dividend before others

Synonyms

WEAK

convertible preferred stock cumulative convertible preferred stock cumulative preferred stock participating preferred stock preference stock

Example Sentences

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Nina Paninnguaq Skydsbjerg Jacobsen, a thirty-one-year-old film and television producer in Nuuk, told me that her preferred literary genre is Nordic thrillers, and that Greenlandic literature had seemed to her to traffic in traditional stereotypes.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 31, 2017

Keith Olbermann, a Cornell graduate, preferred literary references.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2015

Doubtless in the law he might have become a great advocate, had he not preferred literary composition instead.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by Lord, John