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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A trade of a security that is opened and closed on the same day.
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- noun business, finance A
transaction in which units ofstock or otherinvestment instruments are purchased and then sold within a single market day. - verb business, finance To engage, as a
deliberate investmentstrategy , in the veryshort-term trading of stocks or other securities, by selling any given security within the same market day during which it was purchased.
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