private equity
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.25 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Capital stock in a private company that does not offer stock to the general public.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
An investment fund that specializes in buying companies in order to restructure and then sell them with a profit; the industry comprising such firms.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "That company is closely held; its equity is all private equity."
- "Although private equity is not inherently villainous, the horror stories from past takeovers give the industry a bad name, especially in cases where it assumes the mantle of landlord or hospital owner."
- "Spain’s La Liga has agreed a €2.7bn (£2.3bn) deal with CVC that could see private equity involved in the running of a large European football league for the first time."
- "American private equity tycoons are profiteering from the global climate crisis by investing in fossil fuels that are driving greenhouse gas emissions, a new investigation reveals."
- "If trouble is to strike, it will hit an industry that is now hubristic and vast. The amount of money invested, or waiting to be invested, by private-equity funds has swelled from $1.3trn in 2009 to $4.6trn today. This was driven by a scramble for yield among pension funds, insurance companies and endowments during a decade of historically low interest rates in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007-09. Many have more than doubled their allocations to private equity."
- "Private equity — the industry responsible for bankrupting companies, slashing jobs and raising the mortality rates at the nursing homes it acquires — is making money by gobbling up the rights for old hits and pumping them back into our present."
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Finance.