ordinary investor

collocation in English

meaningsofordinaryandinvestor

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ordinary
adjective
uk
/ˈɔː.dən.əri/us
/ˈɔːr.dən.er.i/
not different or special or unexpected in any ...
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investor
noun[C]
uk
/ɪnˈves.tər/us
/ɪnˈves.t̬ɚ/
a person who puts money into something in order to make a profit or get ...
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(Definition ofordinaryandinvestorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They now allege that they are trying to protect theordinaryinvestor, who has nothing like the advice available to the trustee.
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In those years, until 1913, it was not possible for theordinaryinvestorto find what we call short-dated stock.
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Let us consider the plight of theordinaryinvestor.
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Consequently, there should be no side effect at all for theordinaryinvestorin a building society.
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Theordinaryinvestordoes not always want to take the trouble to judge what is safe.
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So theordinaryinvestorwho wants to go and plant forests cannot do so without those two restrictions.
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There remains theordinaryinvestorwho wishes good security and a fair return for his money.
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How will this affect theordinaryinvestorwhen conversion takes place?
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I am sure that theordinaryinvestorwill feel that this has not met the point at all.
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One of the tenets of theordinaryinvestoris that he has a legitimate right to a fair return on his investment.
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Therefore, it is difficult to interest theordinaryinvestorby the usual method.
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The film industry cannot, at the present time, give any attraction to theordinaryinvestor.
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What are the terms that we have to offer to theordinaryinvestor?
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That did not show much confidence in electricity, if that was what theordinaryinvestorthought of its chance of success.
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Are we to understand that there is no guarantee to theordinaryinvestorthat the process referred to is consistent with modern requirements?
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Perhaps his background and the people with whom he associates distort his view of theordinaryinvestor, many of whom may indeed invest in collective schemes.
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Their investment activities are only peripheral to their main commercial activities, and they generally confine themselves to a professional market place and do nothing which would affect theordinaryinvestor.
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That is to say, they use powers granted for one purpose for the benefit of advantaging their investments in a way which is not open to theordinaryinvestor.
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Theordinaryinvestorwill want to participate in such a secondary market in international equities and that is largely the purpose of providing such a market.
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Unless there is an adequate system to raise standards, we shall continue to fear that lowest common denominator regulatory standards will apply, especially for theordinaryinvestorand depositor.
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