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A restriction made when giving shares in an initial public offering that limits when the buyer can sell the shares after the IPO begins trading.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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