Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• ACCELERATION ORDER
  
  (USA) An order by the SEC declaring a registration statement effective (and thereby making sales of securities permissible)before expiration of the statutory 20 day period from the date of filing. The filing of an amendment to a registration statement by the issuing company restarts the 20 day clock.
  
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