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sell side

sell side noun: the sector of the finance industry that sells products such as stocks, bonds, and mutual funds to investors.

Noun

sell side (plural sell sides)

  1. The sector of the finance industry that sells products such as stocks, bonds, and mutual funds to investors.
    • 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
    • An endless cycle forms, and it's a cycle that I can't imagine the sell side is happy about. Like their buy-side counterparts, the sell side will welcome entrepreneurs with open arms for no other reason than to regain the home court advantage: to reconnect to the buy side.2009, Richard Goldberg, The Battle for Wall Street, →ISBN
  2. A model of e-commerce in which the seller hosts an application that enables buyers to purchase their products.
    • 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
    • Shopping on the Internet at Web sites such as amazon. com and toysrus.com are examples of the sell side model.2004, Hossein Bidgoli, The Internet Encyclopedia - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 649

Forms of sell side

pluralsell sides

Questions about sell side

What does sell side mean?
Sell side means the sector of the finance industry that sells products such as stocks, bonds, and mutual funds to investors.
What part of speech is sell side?
Sell side is a noun.
What is the plural of sell side?
The plural of sell side is sell sides.

Words near sell side in the dictionary

  1. sell out
  2. sell out from under
  3. sell past the close
  4. sell salt to a slug
  5. sell short
  6. sell side
  7. sell sides
  8. sell snow to Eskimos
  9. sell someone a bill of goods
  10. sell someone a pup
  11. sell the dummy

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