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To start selling shares in a company to the public on a stock exchange.
To provide help or money to people or organizations that have helped you, or to society in general.
To reduce the amount of money that is spent on something.
The ability to perceive, enjoy, or express what is amusing or comical.
A period of great success or high prices that suddenly ends.
A period of rapid inflation in the stock prices of internet-based companies followed by a sudden crash.
The process of a private company starting to sell its shares to the general public on a stock exchange.
Initial Public Offering; the first time a company's stock is sold to the public.
To collect or gather money, especially for business investment or charity.