1 (also float) [C,U] (business) the process of selling shares in a company to the public for the first time in order to raise money:
plans for (a) flotation on the stock exchange * a stock-market flotation
2 [U] the act of floating on or in water:
a flotation tank (= where people float in the dark as a way of relaxing)
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