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conversion
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Conversion
In the context of securities, refers to the exchange of a convertible security such as a bond into stock.

In the context of mutual funds, refers to the free exchange of mutual fund shares from one fund to another in a single family.

Conversion
The act of exchanging a convertible security for the underlying common stock. For example, if one holds a convertible bond in company A, conversion occurs when the holder gives the convertible bond back to company A and, in return, either receives for free or buys at a stated price, common shares in the same company.
conversion

(1) The process of changing a property into condominium ownership. (2) Wrongfully taking property of another,or denying that person access to his or her property.If a self-storage facility overlocks a tenant unit in the mistaken belief the rent is past due, when in reality the rent was credited to the wrong person's account,then the facility is guilty of conversion.
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Jews were formally put under conversionary pressure by the church from the 13th century on.
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These Jewish phenomenologists may have been part of what historian Alan Levenson (1995) calls "the conversionary impulse" that was sweeping through Jewish Germany at the turn of the century.
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At least three different contributors, for example, discuss the famous conversionary conversation on the "true myth" of Christianity that took place in Oxford in 1931 between Lewis, Tolkien, and Hugo Dyson; however, each offers different details, none the complete picture.
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