Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun preferred_shares

1 sense of preferred shares

Sense 1
preferred stock, preferred shares, preference shares -- (stock whose holders are guaranteed priority in the payment of dividends but whose holders have no voting rights)
       => stock -- (the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity); "he owns a controlling share of the company's stock")