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employee share option

 
 
noun [C] UK (abbreviation ESO, US employee stock option) FINANCE, HR

Definition

› a special agreement that gives an employee the right to buy company shares for a particular price by a particular date, sometimes offered as a reward or instead of pay: If employee share options are cashed in early, you may lose the income tax break that the options normally carry.
(Definition of employee share option noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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