Financial Definition of Spin-Off

Meaning of Spin-Off

A company can create an independent company from an existing part of the company by selling or distributing new shares in the so-called spinoff.

Legal Definition of Split

The division of the outstanding shares of a corporation into a larger number of shares. A 3-for-1 split by a company with 1 million shares outstanding results in 3 million shares outstanding. Each holder of 100 shares before the 3-for-1 split would have 300 shares, although the proportionate equity in the company would remain the same; 100 parts of 1 million are the equivalent of 300 parts of 3 million. Ordinarily, splits must be voted by directors and approved by shareholders. (See: Stock dividend)

Synonyms of Split

verb

abscind
allocate
allot
apportion
assign
bisect
break
break with
carve
chop
cleave
crack
cut
deal
detach
dichotomize
dijfindere
disconnect
disjoin
dispense
dissect
dissever
distribute
disunite
divide
dole
fissure
fracture
give way
hack
halve
hew
incise
intersect
isolate
lance
mete
open
parcel out
part
part company
partition
rend
rift
rip
rive
rupture
scindere
section
segment
segregate
separate
sever
share
shiver
slash
slice
slit
snap
splinter
subdivide
sunder
tear
unbind
untie Associated Concepts: split a cause of action

noun

aperture
bifurcation
bisection
breach
break
chasm
chink
cleavage
cleft
crack
crater
crevice
cut
detachment
dichotomy
difference
dilaceration
dimidiation
diremption
disagreement
disassociation
discerption
disconnection
disengagement
disjunction
dismemberment
disruption
dissection
dissension
disseverance
disunion
divarication
divergence
division
divorce
divulsion
faction
fissura
fissure
fork
fracture
furrow
gap
gash
gulf
hiatus
incision
interruption
lacuna
partage
partition
perforation
quarrel
rent
rift
rima
rip
scission
scissura
scissure
sect
segmentation
segregation
separation
severance
slit
slot
subdivision
sunderance
variance Associated Concepts: split among the Circuit Courts
split sentence
splitting a cause of action

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Grammar

This term is a verb.

Etimology of Split

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1580s (transitive and intransitive), not found in Middle English, probably from a Low German source such as Middle Dutch splitten, from Proto-Germanic *spl(e)it- (source also of Danish and Frisian splitte, Old Frisian splita, German splei?en “to split”), from PIE *(s)plei- “to split, splice” (see flint). U.S. slang meaning “leave, depart” first recorded 1954. Of couples, “to separate, to divorce” from 1942. To split the difference is suggested from 1715; to split (one’s) ticket in the U.S. political sense is attested from 1842. To split hairs “make too-nice distinctions” is from 1670s (split a hair). Splitting image “exact likeness” is from 1880. To split the atom is from 1909.

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