IPO (pluralIPOs)
- (business)Initialism ofinitial public offering.
- Coordinate terms:FPO,PO
2001,Salman Rushdie,Fury: A Novel, London:Jonathan Cape,→ISBN,pages3–4: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.
2013, Joanna Biggs, “Tell me everything”, inLondon Review of Books, volume35, number 7:You just shrug when you change the site’s privacy settings overnight to capture lucrative personal information and make Facebook’sIPO one of the biggest in Silicon Valley.
- Initialism ofIntellectual Property Office.
IPO (third-person singular simple presentIPOs,present participleIPOing,simple past and past participleIPOedorIPO'edorIPO-ed)
- (intransitive, transitive) To launch aninitial public offering, togo public.
2000, Patrick Doucette,Making a Fortune in Canadian Stocks: How to Get Started on the Road to Wealth with Canadian Equities, iUniverse,→ISBN,page51:OnX recentlyIPO'ed at $7.50 per share, quickly rose to $10.50 per share and then drifted down to about $5 per share.
2012 October 1, Rachel Lu, “Gallows Humor: The Dark Jokes of Weibo as China's Stock Market Tanked”, inThe Atlantic[1]:@大学生讲坛 tweets, “A stock market investor asks Hades, ‘What level of hell is this?’ Hades replies, ‘The 18th.’ The investor tears up out of happiness, ‘Finally I've managed to buy at the bottom!’ Hades looks at him with a smile, ‘Don't you know that hell hasIPOed and expanded to 36 levels?’”
2022, Jimmy Soni,The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley[2], Simon and Schuster,→ISBN:The extra scrutiny was a sign of the times, but having neverIPO-ed a company before, most of the executive team took it as par for the course.
