(a) an issue of scrip certificates (now rare); (b) an issue of extra shares to existing shareholders, in proportion to the shares already held; =…

= public offering n.; (formerly also) †an offer to the shareholders of a company to buy their shares (= tender offer n. at tender, n.2 3b) (obsolete).

an issue of extra shares to existing shareholders, in proportion to the shares already held; = scrip issue n. (b) at scrip, n.4 compounds 2.

Commerce. The action of inscribing stock; in plural inscribed stocks: see inscribed, adj. 1b.

an offering to the general public of shares in or bonds of a particular company; cf. initial public offering n. at initial, adj. n.additions.

the issue of additional shares to existing shareholders in proportion to their existing holdings, without further payment being required; = scrip…

The issuing of new shares by a company not directly to the public but through the medium of the Stock Exchange.

Stock Market. An issue of shares after a company's initial public offering; a follow-on offering (see sense B. 3).