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Definition of Selloff
1. Noun. A sale of a relatively large number of assets (stocks or bonds or commodities) at a low price typically done to dispose of them rather than as normal trade.
Definition of Selloff
1. Noun. The large-scale selling of stocks ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Selloff
1. the sale of a large number of stocks, bonds, or commodities [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Selloff
Literary usage of Selloff
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Small Arms, Big Impact: The Next Challenge of Disarmament by Michael Renner (1998)
"... has opened a Pandora's box: there is fear that a possibly massive selloff of
the Soviet military arsenal is under way, from alleged cases of nuclear ..."
2. OECD Economics Glossary: English-French = Glossaire de L'économie de L'OCDE by Oecd, SourceOECD (Online service) (2006)
"... of shares désengagement [vis-à-vis d'une société] [FIN] selloff syn. sell-Off 1.
dégagement ; désengagement [vis-à-vis d'une position ou d'une monnaie] ..."
3. Personal Finance by Robert S. Rosefsky (2001)
"There's never any way of knowing when a mass profit-taking selloff will occur.
It's usually a mob psychology function, and, if you can figure out mob ..."
4. Precious Metals (Gold, Silver and Platinum): Industry and Trade Summary by Deborah McNay (1995)
"83 "Silver Bounces Back from Polaroid selloff," Plait's Metals Week, Dec. 6,
1993, p. 4. 85 Sterling silver is commonly used to produce these articles. ..."
5. The Breathing Dead and Cement Children by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1995)
"They said this influence is showing up in the current selloff of the dollar that
has sent the currency's value plunging to a postwar low against the ..."
6. The Proper Value and Management of Government Timber Lands and the by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Nathaniel Hillyer Egleston, Floyd P. Baker, Bernhard Eduard Fernow, Matthew Canfield Read, George Vasey, Ramsay Weston Phipps (1883)
"... should selloff its forests in the Rocky Mountains at §2.50 an acre, the
condition, positive or implied, being that the forest should be at ouce cleared ..."
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