Terms beginning with X
9 headwords
- XIn stock listings, a mark meaning that the shares trade without some right that normally goes with them. Without divi…
- XDWithout dividend. The seller, not the buyer, takes the next dividend, because it falls due before the transfer is com…
- XDISWithout distribution. The shares no longer carry the right to a distribution about to be made to holders.
- xenodochiumA licensed public inn; also the receiving of strangers, or hospitality itself. The word was used too of a hospital.
- XQA question put to a witness in cross-examination.
- XRWithout rights. The value of the subscription privilege has been taken out of the price, so the buyer gets no right t…
- XWWithout warrants. The shares no longer carry the right to warrants already declared and distributed to holders.
- XYY syndromeThe presence of an extra Y chromosome in a male. It was once thought to make men more aggressive and prone to crime,…
- XYY-chromosome defenseA defense, usually offered in support of an insanity plea, that the defendant's crime sprang from having an extra Y c…