ICO

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noun

ˈī-ˈsē-ˈō 

variants or I.C.O.

plural ICOs or I.C.O.s

: an initial offering of a cryptocurrency to the public : initial coin offering

The venture capital industry is beginning to take a good, hard look at a new financial instrument coming out of the bitcoin community—Initial Coin Offerings, or ICOs.

—Richard Kastelein

icosa-

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combining form

variants or less commonly icosi- or icos-

: twenty

icosahedron

Word History

Etymology

Combining form

Greek eikosa-, eikosi-, eikos-, from eikosi

First Known Use

Noun

2014, in the meaning defined above