STOCK MARKETrelatingtobonds,shares, etc. that aresellingat more thantheirfacevalue(= thevalueshownon them):Stockboughtaboveparwillresultin acapitalloss.betterthanusual, or above theexpectedstandard:Thefoodin thehoteliswell abovepar.
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below par(Definition ofabove parfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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above parHe is part of a local cricket team, formed by his close friends, and win many local tournaments with hisaboveparperformance in batting.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The controls are relatively simple and uniform, and the sound and graphics, for the period, are widely considered at orabovepar.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She finished with a 71.89 scoring average, just 0.17 strokesaboveparper round over her 132 career rounds.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.What you get instead are passages that would have been regarded asaboveparbut hardly fresh if they had appeared in a news magazine cover story ten years ago.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Using this method, if a stock splits and returns to the $1.00 value, the owner should sell out and reinvest in a stock that is safelyabovepar.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Many of our railroad stocks bring prices faraboveparand pay liberal interest on investments.FromProject GutenbergThe price was up ten shillingsabovepar.FromProject GutenbergThe fund therefore acted as a very expensive sinking fund, the market price of the stock purchased beingabovepar.FromProject GutenbergA tax was imposed at the same time, payable in the paper notes of the colony at five per centumabovepar.FromProject GutenbergA week after she had made her investment the pound shares, which were standing at a littleabovepar, had declined rapidly to fourteen shillings.FromProject GutenbergThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/above-par##
