delistv.
/(ˌ)diːˈlɪst/, U.S. /diˈlɪst/ 1. transitive. To remove (a person or thing) from a list or category; spec. (a) Military to stand (a person) down from active service; (b) Australian Sport to remove (a player) from a list of those eligible to play in a particular season.
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1919 Alumni Q. & Fortn. Notes (Univ. Illinois) 1 June 329/1 Fred Wells has been delisted, after eleven months over the ocean with the 26th engineers.
1963 Times 29 May 7/2 The practice of ‘stop-listing’, ‘delisting’, and then ‘relisting’ areas can be a powerful deterrent to industrialists.
1992 Mercury (Hobart, Austral.) (Nexis) 5 Nov. North Melbourne, arguably the most disappointing team in the competition, swept out the cupboard when it de-listed 14 senior players.
2018 I. Braverman Coral Whisperers iv. 168 Forsman realized that as a result of his research, this coral would now be delisted from the Red List and from the Endangered Species Act.
2. transitive. Stock Market (originally U.S.). To remove (a security) from the official register of those traded on a particular exchange. Also occasionally intransitive: (of a company) to remove its stock from a particular exchange.Sometimes with the name of the company issuing the security as object.A stock may be delisted by the company issuing it, or by the exchange itself. In the latter case, this is often as a result of financial irregularity.
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1922 ‘Blue-sky’ Bill Pt. 2: Hearings before U.S. House Comm. Interstate & Foreign Commerce (67th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 93 This copy of the rules handed to me does not apply to the delisting of stocks. Under there rules stocks may not be delisted under any circumstances.
1934 Times 10 Aug. 16/5 The widespread rumours that many corporations would delist rather than submit to the regulations.
1937 Facing Tax Probl.: Surv. Taxation in U.S. (20th Cent. Fund; Comm. on Taxation) xxvii. 478 Then, too, the tax might lead some closely held corporations to delist their securities.
1983 Economist (Nexis) 5 Nov. 92/2 Only three companies..have had to be delisted.
2001 Daily Tel. 10 Oct. 35/2 [The] shares can remain suspended for up to six months before being formally delisted. They last traded at 280p on Friday.
3. transitive. Business. To remove (a product) from the list of those sold by a particular retailer or retail chain, esp. because of poor sales. Also occasionally intransitive.
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1975 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 24 July 1/3 Should these two actions fail to boost sales to the required quota the wines will be delisted and vanish from liquor store shelves.
1995 Independent 10 Jan. 4/2 The multiple grocery chains..dominate farmers and growers by threats to ‘de-list’, or suspend contracts, or to reject produce at the last minute.
2001 Retail Newsagent 7 July 14/2 A publisher with 45% of a magazine's sales going through WHSmith Retailer should be nervous. If the title were to be delisted by the retailer, that would be the end of its days in the sun.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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