(a) a pill containing poison, esp. one taken in order to commit suicide; also figurative; (b) Business (originally U.S.), any of a number of ploys…

Stock Market. An attempt to manipulate prices by cornering the market in a publicly listed stock. Cf. corner, n.1 14a.

Commerce. The action of making a ‘corner’: see corner, v. 4. Also attributive.

see quot. 1891 (cf. sense 20); cf. washed, adj. 1f.

Stockbroking. (In sense 20b of wash, v.)

(see rigging, n.3).

Commerce. A speculative operation in which a combination or syndicate buy up the whole of any stock in the market, or the whole available supply of…

Originally and chiefly U.S. The action of increasing the value of a company's stocks, shares, etc., above the level justified by its assets, in…

Stock Market. (See first quot.)

The action or an act of managing or directing a person, etc., esp. in a skilful manner; the exercise of subtle, underhand, or devious influence or…

slang. Stock Market. A fictitious sale of securities by a broker who has a commission from an intending buyer and also from an intending seller…

trading on the stock market which is considered disreputable or dishonest.

systems of manipulation on the Stock Exchange involving artificial treatment of orders to buy and sell shares, etc.

Trading in a security prior to its official quotation on the Stock Exchange; a market for this.

(see quots.)

Stock Market slang. (See quot. 1974.) Cf. warehouse, v. e.

bed and breakfast. spec. in financial contexts, used attributively to designate a transaction in which shares are sold late in the day and bought…

a swift operation effected early in trading whereby a stockbroker obtains for his client a markedly increased shareholding in a company (frequently…