capital-raising

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› FINANCE relating to the actions that a company takes in order to find new capital to finance its activities: Schroders' first capital-raising exercise was a bond issue for a railway in Cuba in 1863.

(Definition of capital-raising adjective from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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