dilute
Example Sentences
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If the carmaker buys SpaceX and issues new equity, its investors will see their shares diluted as the new joint entity would trade at a lower price-to-earnings multiple than Tesla does now, Black says.
When new shares are added to compensate employees, that dilutes the ownership stakes of existing shareholders.
From MarketWatch
Teachers may adapt, dilute or quietly resist the messaging.
From BBC
It also plans to lower investment spending, increase its oil-and-gas business production and dilute its stake in Plenitude as part of a new strategy through 2030.
Intensive care staffing ratios were diluted, going from one nurse to one patient to one to four at times.
From BBC
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