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selldown

selldown noun: the selling of sufficient shares to significantly reduce their price.

Noun

selldown (plural selldowns)

  1. (Australia) The selling of sufficient shares to significantly reduce their price.
    • Telstra Corporation was down 11 cents, or 3.17 per cent, at $3.36 continuing Friday's drop that followed a selldown by the Future Fund, the nation's sovereign wealth fund.2009 August 24, “Market takes a big leap forward”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2009

Forms of selldown

pluralselldowns
alternative formsell-down

Origin of selldown

Deverbal from sell down.

Questions about selldown

What does selldown mean?
Selldown means the selling of sufficient shares to significantly reduce their price.
What part of speech is selldown?
Selldown is a noun.
What is the plural of selldown?
The plural of selldown is selldowns.

Words near selldown in the dictionary

  1. sellary
  2. sellathon
  3. sellathons
  4. sellback
  5. sellbacks
  6. selldown
  7. selldowns
  8. selle
  9. Selleck
  10. Sellecks
  11. selled

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