Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• COMMON SHARE
  
  A sort of Call Option (q.v.) on the assets of the corporation, because the common shareholder gets those assets if he pays off everyone else with a claim against the assets. The Common Share represents a fractional ownership interest in the corporation, it has voting rights, and may receive a dividend.
  
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