record date
noun [C or S] FINANCE, STOCK MARKETDefinition
› the official date on which a shareholder must own shares in order to receive dividend payments on them or to vote at a shareholders' meeting: Each shareholder may cast one vote for each full share and a partial vote for each partial share that they own on the record date, which is December 21, 2011.
(Definition of record date noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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