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panic selling

panic selling noun: wide-scale selling of an investment (such as a company's stock) out of emotion and fear, rather than evaluating the fundamentals, which causes a sharp decline in prices. Also the third-person singular simple present indicative of panic sell.

Noun

panic selling (countable and uncountable, plural panic sellings)

  1. Wide-scale selling of an investment (such as a company's stock) out of emotion and fear, rather than evaluating the fundamentals, which causes a sharp decline in prices.

Also used as

panic selling is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of panic sell.

Forms of panic selling

pluralpanic sellings

Questions about panic selling

What does panic selling mean?
Panic selling means wide-scale selling of an investment (such as a company's stock) out of emotion and fear, rather than evaluating the fundamentals, which causes a sharp decline in prices.
What part of speech is panic selling?
Panic selling is a noun.
What is the plural of panic selling?
The plural of panic selling is panic sellings.

Words near panic selling in the dictionary

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  3. panic sell
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  7. panic sellings
  8. panic sells
  9. panic snap
  10. panic snaps
  11. panic sold

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