cornerern.
/ˈkɔːnərə/ 1. Commerce. One who makes a ‘corner’ in a particular stock or commodity; a corner-man.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > dealer in stocks and shares > type of
profit taker1552
bull1714
bear1718
fund-monger1734
lame duck1806
stag1845
taker-in1852
cornerer1869
wrecker1876
corner-man1881
market-rigger1881
boursocrat1882
offeror1882
ribbon clerk1882
inflater1884
manipulator1888
underwriter1889
kangaroo1896
piker1898
share pusher1898
specialist1900
tailer1900
writer1906
placee1953
corporate raider1955
tippee1961
raider1972
bottom fisher1974
white knight1978
greenmailer1984
1869 Daily News 13 Oct. The unhappy ‘sellers short’..have to pay over the difference between the price at which they agreed to deliver the stock and the price at which the ‘cornerers’ are willing to sell it.
1886 W. Graham Social Probl. 157 Some successful ‘cornerer’ of cotton or corn.
2. One who cuts the corners off or notches materials used in the manufacture of various articles.
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1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) § 279
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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