Brewer's: Floated

(Stock Exchange term). Brought out (said of a loan or company), as the Turkish '69 Loan was floated by the Cohens. The French 6 per cent. was floated by the Morgans.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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