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An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc.
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n.
A wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices.
n.
The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
superl.
Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.
a.
Adapted to the means of the common people; possessed or obtainable by the many; hence, cheap; common; ordinary; inferior; as, popular prices; popular amusements.
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Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc.
n.
Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.
v. i.
Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market.
n.
A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed.
a.
Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
n.
A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee.
v. i.
To keep within a (certain) range for a time; to be in general, or as a rule; as, prices ruled lower yesterday than the day before.
adv.
In a higher place or position, literally or figuratively; in the state of having arisen; in an upright, or nearly upright, position; standing; mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation, prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement, insurrection, or the like; -- used with verbs of rest, situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up.
n.
A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; -- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
v. t.
To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.
v. t.
To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
a.
Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity.
v. i.
To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
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