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Home Dictionary Name: stock optionsincentive stock option
incentive stock option see option ...
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stock option plan
stock option plan : a form of deferred compensation that allows an employee to buy corporate stock at a set price (as the prevailing market price at the time of the contract) at any time (as when the market price has risen) during a designated number of years ...
stock options
stock options A type of retirement plan in which employees have the opportunity to purchase stock in the company for which they work ...
Option of purchase in a lease
Option of purchase in a lease. A clause giving the lessee the option of purchasing the reversion for a fixed sum within a limited number of years, or at anytime during the term, is sometimes inserted in leases. A clause giving an option of purchase at any time during a ninety-nine years' lease offends against the law of perpetuities (see that title) and cannot be specifically enforced, Woodall v. Clifton, (1905) 2 Ch 257; Worthing Corporation v. Heather, (1906) 2 Ch 532. For statement of opinion that the clause 'to be completely valid must be so expressed that the option must necessarily be exercised (if at all) within the limits of the time allowed by the rule against perpetuities,' so that probably not more than twenty one years could be allowed in a lease independent of life, see article by Mr. T. Cyprian Williams in the Solicitors' Journal for July 9, 1898; and for cases on option of purchase generally, see Woodfall, L. & T....
exercisable
That may be exercised used or exerted as the stock options are exercisable for only five years from the date of issue...
Optional
Involving an option depending on the exercise of an option left to ones discretion or choice allowed but not compulsory as optional studies it is optional with you to go or stay...
Option
Option. 1. When a new suffragan bishop is consecrated by the archbishop of the province, by a customary prerogative, the archbishop claims the collation of the first vacant dignity or benefice in that see, at his own choice, i.e., option. Options are now disused. 2. The word is also used in commercial matters to express a right to effect a certain dealing or not in shares or goods at a stated price at a certain date, at the option of the person bargaining, who pays a premium for the right....
stock
stock 1 a : the equipment, materials, or supplies of a business b : a store or supply accumulated ;esp : the inventory of the goods of a merchant or manufacturer 2 : the ownership element in a corporation usually divided into shares and represented by transferable certificates ;also : the certificate evidencing ownership of one or more shares of stock capital stock 1 : the stock that a corporation may issue under its charter including both common and preferred stock 2 : the outstanding shares of a joint stock company considered as an aggregate 3 : capitalization common stock : a class of stock whose holders share in company profits (as through dividends) on a pro rata basis, may vote for directors and on important matters such as mergers, and may have limited access to information not publicly available cumulative preferred stock : preferred stock whose holders are entitled to the payment of cumulative dividends as well as current dividends before common stockholders are ...
fixed amount option
fixed amount option : installments-for-a-fixed-amount option at option ...
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