From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstagstag /stæɡ/ noun [countable] 1 HBAa fully grown male deer SYN buck American English2 → go stag → stag night, stag party
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stag• So the fox sat down by him and chatted until the young lord came back with a stag which he had shot.• The dun stag stayed back, sidestepping like a boxer.• It is a sound which can be imitated fairly easily and I've brought irate stags near by issuing an apparent challenge.• I made myself very small as the stags crashed down the heathery, birch-studded hillside.• The stag is a primal male creature, filled with force and dynamism.From Longman Business Dictionarystagstag1 /stæg/ noun [countable] British EnglishFINANCE someone who buys new shares in a company in order to sell them quickly and make a profit, rather than to keep them as an investmentstagstag2 verb (stagged, stagging) [transitive] stag an issue British EnglishFINANCE to buy shares in a company in order to sell them quickly and make a profit, rather than to keep them as an investmentSubstantially reducing the pricing of the tender (=formal statement of the price) makes it unpopular with those who like to stag new issues.Origin stag Old English stagga 