initial public offering

noun

: the first sale of a company's stock to the public

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Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Platforms, India’s largest wireless operator and digital service provider, filed draft papers for an initial public offering on Friday. Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 19 June 2026 The timing could not be better for Musk and SpaceX, which last week made the largest initial public offering in history. The Week Us, TheWeek, 16 June 2026 Elon Musk's mega-conglomerate SpaceX made history on Thursday, raising $75 billion in the biggest initial public offering on record. John Ruwitch, NPR, 11 June 2026 Topline Web traffic for Claude is on a major upswing, apparently siphoning some traffic from competitor AI chatbots, as Anthropic prepares an initial public offering and releases a version of its powerful Mythos model to the public, albeit with safeguards. Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for initial public offering

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“Initial public offering.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/initial%20public%20offering. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.

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