Meaning & use
corporate issuers
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Meaning
nounpluralbusinessfinance
Companies that sell stocks or bonds to raise money from investors.
Grammar: Usually plural; the singular is 'corporate issuer'.
Patterns
- corporate issuers of bonds
- a list of corporate issuers
- corporate issuers in the market
The bank advises corporate issuers on selling new bonds.
Regulators require corporate issuers to disclose their financial results.
Many corporate issuers postponed their offerings during the market downturn.
Word forms
| singular | corporate issuer |
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Common combinations
- corporate issuers of debt
- Investors watched corporate issuers of debt closely after rates rose.
- major corporate issuers
- Major corporate issuers dominate the bond market.
- corporate issuers and governments
- Both corporate issuers and governments borrow in the same markets.
- advise corporate issuers
- The firm advises corporate issuers on share sales.
Synonyms and how they differ
- companies
- General and informal; 'corporate issuers' is a finance term that stresses their role in selling securities.
- borrowers
- Focuses on taking on debt; a corporate issuer may also sell shares, which is not borrowing.
Word family
Commonly confused: corporate issuers or investors?
corporate issuers vs investors
Investors buy securities; corporate issuers sell them. The two sit on opposite sides of a deal.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'corporate issuers' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Corporate issuers' are the companies that sell securities, so a fund can buy shares from them. Option 1 reverses the roles, option 2 uses a plural where a singular job title is needed, and option 3 ignores the plural form.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “corporate issuers”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.