Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adjective
- of, relating to, or constituting a blue chip.
- having outstanding or exemplary qualities within a specified category; leading: a group of blue-chip scientists; blue-chip stock.
noun
- Chiefly Poker. a blue-colored chip of high value.
- a common stock issued by a major company that has financial strength, stability against fluctuations, and a good record of dividend payments: regarded as a low-risk investment.
- a secure and valuable item or property held in reserve: The airfield was a blue chip in the struggle for military supremacy.
noun
- a gambling chip with the highest value
- finance
- a stock considered reliable with respect to both dividend income and capital value
- (as modifier)a blue-chip company
- (modifier) denoting something considered to be a valuable asset
also blue-chip, in reference to the high-value poker counter, from 1904 in the figurative sense of “valuable;” stock exchange sense, in reference to “shares considered a reliable investment,” is first recorded 1929; especially of stocks that saw spectacular rises in value in the four years or so before the Wall Street crash of that year.