stock certificate


noun

a certificate evidencing ownership of one or more shares of stock in a corporation.

Origin of stock certificate

First recorded in 1860–65

Example sentences from the Web for stock certificate

  • You'll get a stock-certificate, which you may keep or tear up and throw into the waste-basket, just as you please.

    The City of Numbered Days |Francis Lynde

British Dictionary definitions for stock certificate

stock certificate

noun

the US equivalent of share certificate