flotationnoun
UK also floatation uk/fləʊˈteɪ.ʃən/us/floʊˈteɪ.ʃən/flotation noun (BUSINESS)
[ C or U ] UK an occasion when a company's shares are sold to the public for the first time:
The Glasgow-based company is to launch a stock market flotation this summer.
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Stock markets
- arbitrage
- bear
- bourse
- buy-in
- cash
- cash out sth
- dead cat bounce
- Dow Jones
- haircut
- intangible asset
- investment
- mature
- maturity
- negotiable
- rogue trader
- speculation
- stockbroker
- stockholder
- trading
- unit trust
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Success & failure in business
flotation noun (FLOAT)
[ U ] the action of floating
flotation chamber/compartment/tank
a container filled with water in which people float in order to relax
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Staying afloat, capsizing & sinking
- bail
- bail sth out
- ducking
- go
- go under
- ground
- keel
- keel over
- refloat
- resurface
- ride
- ride sth out
- right
- run
- run aground/ashore idiom
- sank
- submerge
- sunken
- unsinkable
- waterlogged
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