| 单词 | pump and dump |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspump and dump pump and dump n. Stock Market (originally U.S.) a fraudulent scheme in which a person or company promotes a low-value stock in order to profit by selling shares at inflated prices; chiefly attributive. ΚΠ 1988 Wall St. Jrnl. 2 Feb. 1/6 For most promoters, the preferred scam is ‘pump and dump’—pump up the per-share price with hot air and hype, then dump the stock on duped investors for immense profits. 1996 Business Week (Electronic ed.) 27 Mar. 132 The dangers include misinformation and ‘pump and dump’ schemes, in which stocks are hyped by traders who then sell at the inflated share prices. 2005 Financial Times (Nexis) 7 Mar. 6 Deutsche Borse dismissed the complaints as those of johnny-come-latelies to its shares only interested in a pump-and-dump exercise. to pump and dump Phrases P1. pump and dump n. Stock Market (originally U.S.) a fraudulent scheme in which a person or company promotes a low-value stock in order to profit by selling shares at inflated prices; chiefly attributive. ΚΠ 1988 Wall St. Jrnl. 2 Feb. 1/6 For most promoters, the preferred scam is ‘pump and dump’—pump up the per-share price with hot air and hype, then dump the stock on duped investors for immense profits. 1996 Business Week (Electronic ed.) 27 Mar. 132 The dangers include misinformation and ‘pump and dump’ schemes, in which stocks are hyped by traders who then sell at the inflated share prices. 2005 Financial Times (Nexis) 7 Mar. 6 Deutsche Borse dismissed the complaints as those of johnny-come-latelies to its shares only interested in a pump-and-dump exercise. P2. to pump and dump. a. Stock Market (originally U.S.). To operate a pump and dump scheme (see pump and dump n. at Phrases 1). Also transitive: to promote (a stock) as part of such a scheme. ΚΠ 1994 N.Y. Times 16 July 35/2 Also watch out for cheap, thinly traded stocks, Mr. Silverman said; they can easily be ‘pumped and dumped’. 2000 Guardian 2 Mar. i. 26/4 Motivated by events in the United States, the FSA warned again about ‘pumping and dumping’ where tipsters highlight shares to boost the price so that they can sell quickly at a profit. 2002 N.Y. Mag. 4 Feb. 19 Twice in the past six years, when I was at my hedge fund, the SEC called me in informally to see if I was pumping and dumping. b. To express and discard breast milk, typically following the ingestion of alcohol or medication which might be harmful to an infant. ΚΠ 1994 Re: Breast Feeding and Medication in misc.kids.health (Usenet newsgroup) 14 Sept. If one decides to pump and dump for longer than a few days, it is a good idea to call a volunteer or professional to assist you with this. 1997 B. S. Worthington-Roberts & S. Rodwell Williams Nutrition in Pregnancy & Lactation (ed. 6) xiii. 437 The other option when time is of the essence, is for the mother to ‘pump and dump’ her milk until the contamination period has passed. 2003 B. Tilton Trekker's Handbk. 62 If the trip you desire is not suitable for baby, it is possible to ‘pump and dump’ but it is still hard to keep from becoming engorged—an extremely painful condition when hiking. 2016 K. H. Hemmings How to party with Infant 108 I pumped and dumped every two hours for the next twelve hours and supplemented with formula so I wouldn't give him an infant hangover. < as lemmas |
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