blue chip stock

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blue chip stock definition


A term used to describe stocks of high-quality, financially sound corporations.

Note: “Blue chip” suggests a safe investment.
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Blue chip stock is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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