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buy sides

buy sides is the plural of buy side.

Meaning of buy side

Noun

buy side (plural buy sides)

  1. The sector of the finance industry that assists investors and investing institutions in purchasing products from the sell side.
    • The sell side exists only because the buy side trades before we can understand when the sell side is profitable.2003, Larry Harris, Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners, →ISBN
  2. A model of e-commerce in which an institution uses a software application to electronically streamline the purchasing process.
    • It provides a discussion of various e-commerce business models from differing persepectives and presents a taxonomy based on criteria such as sell side versus buy side, system orientation, penetration level, and organizational structure.2001, Syed Mahbubur Rahman, Robert J. Bignall, Internet Commerce and Software Agents, →ISBN, page 116

Questions about buy sides

What is buy sides the plural of?
Buy sides is the plural of buy side.

Words near buy sides in the dictionary

  1. buy order
  2. buy out
  3. buy out from under
  4. buy over
  5. buy side
  6. buy sides
  7. buy some time
  8. buy stop order
  9. buy stop orders
  10. buy straw hats in winter
  11. buy the big one

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