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Primary Distribution: Sale of a new issue of stock or bonds, as distinguished from a secondary distribution.

Secondary Distribution-Offering: Public sale of previously issued securities held by large investors, usually corporations or institutions, as distinguished from a primary distribution, where the seller is the issuing corpo . . . View Full Definition

Primary Macronutrients: Elements that plants require in relatively large quantities: nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium.

Primary Lenders: Originators of real estate loans including commercial banks, savings and loan associations and mutual savings banks.

Primary Key: A set of one or more values in a database that uniquely identifies a record in a table.

Primary Market: If you buy stocks or bonds when they are initially offered for sale, and the money you spend goes to the issuer, you are buying in the primary market. In contrast, if you buy a security at s . . . View Full Definition

Primary Personal Residence: The dwelling in which a taxpayer lives and occupies most of the time.

Primary Mortgage Market: The mortgage market in which loans are originated and consisting of lenders such as commercial banks, savings and loan associations and mutual savings banks.

Primary Meristems: The apical meristems on the shoot and root apices in plants that produce plant primary tissues.

Primary Growth: Cells produced by an apical meristem. The growth a plant by the actions of apical meristems on the shoot and root apices in producing plant primary tisues.