joint-stock

C2 Topic:Business & Commerce
US /ˈdʒɔɪntˌstɑk/ UK /ˈdʒɔɪntˌstɒk/
adj

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    owned by shareholders who hold stock jointly in a company

    The canal was financed by a joint-stock company.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · owned by shareholders who... shareholder-owned
Word family
Related forms stockcompanyshareholder

Etymology

Compound of joint + stock in the commercial sense of capital.

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