stock companies

Definition of stock companiesnext
plural of stock company
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Noun
  • However, Transnistria’s breakaway government relies heavily on Moscow and the region is home to a military base with 1,500 Russian troops.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 May 2026
  • Israeli troops on Thursday shot and killed a 15-year-old boy in Eastern Lubban town in Nablus, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
    Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • The problem of companies substituting hemp for marijuana dates to 2018, when Congress legalized hemp, a close cousin of marijuana that has only trace amounts of THC, the psychoactive compound that makes people high.
    Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 15 May 2026
  • But according to Reilly, Varda and SpaceX are currently the only companies capable of launching experiments into orbit that don’t need to be operated by astronauts.
    Ramin Skibba, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
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“Stock companies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stock%20companies. Accessed 19 May. 2026.

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