Preferred
111floating-rate preferred — preferred stock paying dividends that vary with short term interest rates. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …
112cumulative preferred stocks — preferred stock on which dividends accumulate if they are not paid to the stockholder …
113convertible preferred stock — preferred stock that can be exchanged for a fixed number of shares of the common stock of the issuing company at the holder s option …
114preferred provider — noun Date: 1983 1. PPO usually used attributively 2. a health care provider (as a doctor or hospital) that is part of a PPO …
115preferred provider organization — noun Date: 1983 PPO …
116preferred stock — noun Date: circa 1859 stock guaranteed priority by a corporation s charter over common stock in the payment of dividends and usually in the distribution of assets …
117preferred lie — Golf. a nearby position for a ball preferable to that where it actually landed and to which repositioning is sometimes allowed without loss of a stroke or strokes to the player. * * * …
118preferred position — especially desirable advertising space for which, if it is specifically requested by the advertiser, a publication charges a premium rate. Cf. R.O.P. * * * …
119preferred-provider organization — /pri ferrd preuh vuy deuhr/ a comprehensive health care plan offered to corporate employees that allows them to choose their own physicians and hospitals within certain limits. Abbr.: PPO * * * …
120preferred stock — stock that has a superior claim to that of common stock with respect to dividends and often to assets in the event of liquidation. [1840 50, Amer.] * * * …