delist
verb
de·list
(ˌ)dē-ˈlist 
delisted; delisting; delists
: to remove from a list
especially
: to remove (a security) from the list of securities that may be dealt in on a particular exchange
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The Chinese ride-hailing company was forced to temporarily suspend new user registrations, and got delisted in less than a year.
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Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2024
Initial results were not promising, as many illicit dispensaries remained on the sites while some of New York’s fledgling legal dispensaries were repeatedly delisted.
—Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
There was also a species delisting — the Apache trout, from the Endangered Species Act.
—Andrew Freedman, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
Now the beauty company in the midst of delisting from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is being led by an office of the chief executive.
—Noor Lobad, WWD, 1 Oct. 2024
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Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2024
Initial results were not promising, as many illicit dispensaries remained on the sites while some of New York’s fledgling legal dispensaries were repeatedly delisted.
—Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
There was also a species delisting — the Apache trout, from the Endangered Species Act.
—Andrew Freedman, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
Now the beauty company in the midst of delisting from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is being led by an office of the chief executive.
—Noor Lobad, WWD, 1 Oct. 2024
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delist
transitive verb
de·list
dē-ˈlist
: to remove from a list
especially
: to remove (a security) from the list of securities that may be traded on a particular exchange
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