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widow-and-orphan stock
noun [C or U] STOCK MARKETDefinition
› shares that are considered to be very safe investments: AT&T had been known as the classic widow-and-orphan stock from the 1930s until the 1980s.
(Definition of widow-and-orphan stock noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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