Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• WASHOUT ROUND - a financing round whereby previous investors, the founders, and management suffer signi...
  
  
• WASTE - An improper use or an abuse of a property by a possessor who holds less than fee ownership, suc...
  
  
• WASTING - A term depicting how an option's value decreases over time; as each day after acquisition pas...
  
  
• WASTING ASSET - An asset that has a limited life and thus decreases in value (depreciates) over time. A...
  
  
• WATCH LIST - A list of securities selected for special surveillance by a brokerage, exchange, or regula...
  
  
• WATER RIGHTS - See appropriative water rights, correlative water rights, littoral rights, right of corr...
  
  
• WATER TABLE - the point beneath the surface of the ground at which natural ground water is found. It is...
  
  
• WATER WELL - An excavation where the intended use is for location, acquisition, development, or artific...
  
  
• WATERED SHARES - Par value shares issued for property which has been overvalued and is not worth the ag...
  
  
• WATERED STOCK - A stock representing ownership in a corporation that is worth less than the actual inve...