delist

Meanings

1. 1verbtransitivebusinessfinance

   to remove a company's shares from a stock exchange, or to remove a product or name from an official list.

   Grammar: Takes an object: delist a company, delist a product. Often used in the passive: be delisted from the exchange.

   Patterns

   • delist something from something
   • be delisted from a stock exchange
   • delist a product

   The stock exchange threatened to delist the company after it failed to publish its accounts.

   The supermarket delisted the brand after poor sales.

   Investors worried that the firm would be delisted from the Nasdaq.

2. 2verbtransitive

   to remove a name or item from a list, register, or official record.

   Grammar: Also used with 'from': delist someone from a register.

   Patterns

   • delist someone from something
   • delist an item

   The government delisted the organization from its list of approved charities.

   She was delisted from the waiting list because she moved abroad.

Word forms

Common combinations

delist from a stock exchange

The firm was delisted from the London Stock Exchange last year.

delist a product

The chain decided to delist the product due to low demand.

delist shares

The company plans to delist its shares and become private.

threaten to delist

Regulators threatened to delist the bank if it did not improve its reporting.

Synonyms and how they differ

remove

A general word for taking something away; 'delist' is more specific and means removing from an official list or exchange.

withdraw

Often used when a company takes its own shares off the market; 'delist' can also be forced by the exchange.

Opposites

Word family

delisting noun

The act of removing a company from a stock exchange or a product from a list.

Commonly confused: delist or enlist?

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