all-share

adjective [before noun] mainly UK (US usually all-stock)

Definition

› FINANCE relating to a situation in which a company buys another company and pays for it with shares in itself, not with money: The merger will be based on an all-share deal A rival company launched an all-share bid in October last year.

(Definition of all-share adjective from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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