plural IPOs
: an initial public offering of a company's stock

Examples of IPO in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Following the release of Puig’s first-half numbers in September, when the company reported a 26 percent drop in profit due to the cost of the group’s IPO, its shares tumbled 13 percent. Jennifer Weil, WWD, 30 Oct. 2024 When Reddit went public in March, Altman ended up having even more shares than Huffman, who was the company’s CEO, according to Reddit’s IPO prospectus. Paolo Confino, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2024 This is a story about a woman who did her own IPO…. Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2024 Monitors display Coinbase signage during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for IPO 

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Word History

Etymology

initial public offering

First Known Use

1976, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of IPO was in 1976

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Cite this Entry

“IPO.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/IPO. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

Legal Definition

: an initial public offering of a company's stock
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