IPO

Definition

Initialism of initial public offering.

Example Sentences

• "In spite of the recent falls in the value of the Nasdaq index and the value of Amazon stock, the new technology had the city by the ears: the talk was still of start-ups, IPOs, interactivity, the unimaginable future that had just begun to begin."
• "You just shrug when you change the site’s privacy settings overnight to capture lucrative personal information and make Facebook’s IPO one of the biggest in Silicon Valley."
• "But AB InBev pulled the plug on a proposed IPO of its Asian business in Hong Kong earlier this month, citing tough market conditions."