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public issue

 
 
noun [C or U] STOCK MARKET

Definition

the sale of a company's shares to investors: A statement from the company said there would be no public issue of shares. → See also IPO
(Definition of public issue noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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