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☆ preferred stock

stock on which dividends must be paid before those of common stock: it usually also receives preference in the distribution of assets

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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