blue chip

Related to blue chip: Blue Chip Companies

blue chip

1. noun Shares of stock for a large, respectable company (which would be considered a low risk to invest in). You'll make a lot of money from these blue chips, don't worry.
2. adjective Describing such stock shares. The phrase can be hyphenated in this usage. Those blue-chip stocks will make you a lot of money.
3. adjective By extension, describing something that is regarded as very valuable. The phrase can be hyphenated in this usage. This guy's a blue-chip prospect—we have to draft him.
See also: blue, chip
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

blue chip

1. n. stock shares of a large company that has a high value. (Securities markets.) The blue chips took another nose dive in today’s trading.
2. mod. having to do with the stock of large, valuable companies. (Securities markets.) The blue chip rally ran for a third day.
See also: blue, chip
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • stock
  • surge off (of) (someone or something)
  • take stock
  • take stock (of something)
  • be in stock
  • in stock
  • have (something) in stock
  • have in stock
  • laughing stock
  • laughingstock
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Blue Chip Travel Limited (0131 226 6157) have compiled a selection of two, three and four-day packages to The Open with the support of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club.
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Stevens Point Brewery, in Stevens Point, WI, was recently named a "Wisconsin Blue Chip Enterprise" for 1992 by The Blue Chip Enterprise Initiative, which is sponsored by Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co., the U.S.
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IN 2018, equine feed balancer and supplement brand, Blue Chip, celebrated twenty years of support of the British Showjumping Pony Newcomers Championship.
Blue Chip will be responsible for brand strategy, positioning and activation for Nutraceutical, a company that sells natural supplement and personal care products in health food stores.
Poole, United Kingdom, May 28, 2016 --(PR.com)-- Blue Chip are proud to mark their 10th year supporting Crescent Racing with a new Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution.
M2 EQUITYBITES-March 3, 2016-US Healthcare Network NueHealth Acquires Blue Chip Surgical Partners