Exercise

What Does Exercise Mean?
An action by a stockholder taking advantage of a privilege offered by a company or other financial institution. This includes warrants, options and other exotic financial instruments.

Investopedia explains Exercise
When you exercise your stock option, you "trade in" your options for the actual stock.

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