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sell sides

sell sides is the plural of sell side.

Meaning of sell side

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
  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

Questions about sell sides

What is sell sides the plural of?
Sell sides is the plural of sell side.

Words near sell sides in the dictionary

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

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