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1. Equity capital raised through sale of shares.

2. Proportional part of a firm's equity capital represented by fully paid up shares.

3. UK term for (1) Fixed interest government debt security issued usually in units of £100 each, and (2) Inventory.

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. (Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was a philosopher & mathematician.

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