public sale
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Alphabet’s $10 billion stock sale to Berkshire was part of its $85 billion equity raise, External link which also included a public equity offering and a public sale of mandatory convertible preferred stock.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
While leading the commission from 2017 to 2020, he advocated for individual investors and cracked down on the public sale of cryptocurrencies, which he had said flouted investor protections.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Henry Wellcome, the voracious American-born British pharmaceutical entrepreneur who amassed a collection of more than a million scientific and archaeological artifacts during his lifetime, bought several at a 1928 public sale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
But I think the risk to people, particularly emergency service workers, is such that... the public sale of fireworks needs to be reconsidered.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2023
Auction, awk′shun, n. a public sale in which the bidder offers an increase on the price offered by another, and the articles go to him who bids highest.—v.t. to sell by auction.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
