intransitive. To become less harsh, severe, or intense in feeling, appearance, or sensation; to become… Without adverb.

intransitive. Stock Market. To get rid of one's shares in an enterprise.

intransitive. To trade as a ‘bear’ (bear, n.1 11) on the stock market; to speculate for a fall; to produce or attempt to produce a fall in the…

transitive. Stock Market. To manipulate (the stock market), causing prices to rise or fall through illegal, improper, or contrived methods…

Commerce slang. To deal in shares as a stag (see stag, n.1 8).

Commerce. intransitive. To form a ‘corner’ in a stock or commodity.

to straddle the market (see quots.). U.S. Exchange slang.

transitive. Stock Market.(a) To manipulate (the market, shares, etc.) so as to depress prices or create uncertainty as to values; also intransitive…

Stock Market. to make a market: (originally) to induce active dealing in a stock or share by both buying and selling at about the same price…

to job backwards: to consider an action or decision retrospectively; esp. (on the Stock Exchange) to reconsider past transactions with the benefit of…

transitive. Finance. to mark to (the) market: (a) intransitive, to adjust an account, asset valuation, etc., on a regular basis to reflect the…

Commerce. To sell (a commodity, stock, etc.) short (see short, adj. 11). Also absol. originally U.S.

spec. in Commerce (transitive and intransitive) To inflate (the price of a commodity, esp. oil) artificially by means of a daisy chain (see…

intransitive. To forecast or estimate (a share price, etc.); to aim at (a particular result). Cf. sense 15e.