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[ noun ] the right of a shareholder in a company to subscribe to shares of a new issue of common stock before it is offered to the public

Used in print

(U.S. Reports. Volume 366. Cases Adjudged in the...)

Du_Pont would be denied the right to acquire any additional General_Motors stock except through General_Motors ' distributions of stock or subscription_rights to its stockholders .

Related terms

preemption

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