Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• SECONDARY DISTRIBUTION OR SECONDARY OFFERING
  
  The redistribution of a block of stock after it has been initially sold by the issuing company. Usually a large block of shares is involved (e.g. from the settlement of an estate) and these are offered to the public at a fixed price, set in relationship to the stock's market price.
  
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