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Stop order

noun

An order to a broker to sell (buy) when the price of a security falls (rises) to a designated level. Synonym: stop-loss order.

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"Stop order" Quotes from Famous Books

... deserved the best there was in the house. Maybe I didn't get it, too. The Huns hadn't been gone but a few hours and the peace dinner she'd planned was only a sketchy affair, as she wasn't dead sure they wouldn't come back. When she sees me though, she puts a stop order on all that third-rate stuff and tells the cook to go the limit. And say, they must have dug up food reserves from the sub-cellar, for when me and the ...

— Torchy and Vee • Sewell Ford

Words linked to "Stop order" : stop-loss order, purchase order, order