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noun
Shares of stock in a business that are inflated by parties colluding with the seller making inflated offers for the property that the stock represents, which are reported to potential sellers as indicative of the value of the stock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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noun
stock representing ownership of overvalued assets; stock of a corporation whose total worth is less than its invested capital
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: stock
History
Derived from the practice of "watering" livestock before sale, where the seller gives an animal a large quantity of water to drink before a potential buyer weighs the animal to determine its value.
Across languages
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