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profit-taking

profit-taking is the alternative form of profit taking.

Meaning of profit taking

Noun

profit taking (countable and uncountable, plural profit takings)

  1. The act of extracting profit, as cash or equivalent, from an investment, often by selling part of it.
    • The stock market was down today amid profit taking, the share holders wanted to get some of the increase in stock price as cash while they could.
    Antonyms:
    buying the dip

Forms of profit-taking

pluralprofit-takings

Questions about profit-taking

What is profit-taking the alternative form of?
Profit-taking is the alternative form of profit taking.

Words near profit-taking in the dictionary

  1. profit takings
  2. profit warning
  3. profit warnings
  4. profit à prendre
  5. profit-a-prendre
  6. profit-taking
  7. profit-takings
  8. profit-à-prendre
  9. profitabilities
  10. profitability
  11. profitable

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