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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Following as a related or consequent aspect or development.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an immediate second innings forced on a cricket team scoring a prescribed number of runs fewer than its opponents in the first innings.
- adjective Following as a logical consequence or next step in a process; -- used mostly of voluntary actions.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
follow on .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an immediate second innings forced on a cricket team scoring a prescribed number of runs fewer than its opponents in the first innings
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Examples
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Additional offerings of stock by a company after an initial public offering, or IPO, should be referred to as follow-on offerings.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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Additional offerings of stock by a company after an initial public offering are referred to as follow-on offerings.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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Additional offerings of stock by a company after an initial public offering are referred to as follow-on offerings.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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Additional offerings of stock by a company after an initial public offering, or IPO, should be referred to as follow-on offerings.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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Just as U.S. initial public offerings have dwindled of late, sales of stock from existing public companies, known as follow-on offerings, have declined dramatically since August.
Follow-On Offerings Get Hit by a Slowdown, Too Lynn Cowan 2011
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But rather than raise hundreds of millions of dollars the most popular way—selling shares all at once in what's known as a follow-on offering—it can raise a little bit day by day, over the course of months, in what's known as an at-the-market offering.
REITs Hit the ATM for Funds Lynn Cowan 2011
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But rather than raise hundreds of millions of dollars the most popular way-selling shares all at once in what's known as a follow-on offering-it can raise a little bit day by day, over the course of months, in what's known as an at-the-market offering.
unknown title 2011
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But rather than raise hundreds of millions of dollars the most popular way-selling shares all at once in what's known as a follow-on offering-it can raise a little bit day by day, over the course of months, in what's known as an at-the-market offering.
unknown title 2011
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Among gainers, Oil & Natural Gas Corp. built on Monday's gains on the back of a report that the company's follow-on share sale has been postponed.
India Shares Fall on Factory Data Sudeep Jain 2011
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To make the shares affordable to investors, the company will split each of its shares into five before the follow-on offer.
India Invites Bids From Bankers for Bharat Heavy Share Sale Mukesh Jagota of Dow Jones Newswires 2011
fbharjo commented on the word follow-on
It's Cricket.
October 24, 2010