(公司)上市的;公开交易的:指一家公司的股票在证券交易所或公开市场上买卖,因此公司的部分所有权向公众投资者开放。(也常写作 publicly traded / publicly traded company。)
/ˌpʌblɪkli ˈtreɪdɪd/
A publicly-traded company must share certain financial information with investors.
上市公司必须向投资者披露某些财务信息。
After years of being privately owned, the firm became publicly-traded and faced much stricter reporting requirements.
在多年私有经营之后,这家公司完成上市,随之需要遵守更严格的信息披露要求。
publicly 来自 public(公众的、公共的),表示“以公开方式”;traded 来自动词 trade(交易、买卖)的过去分词,表示“被交易的”。合起来字面意思是“在公开市场上被交易的”,在商业语境中特指“股票可公开买卖”的公司或资产。