share pushern.
/ˈʃɛː ˌpʊʃə/, U.S. /ˈʃɛr ˌpʊʃər/ Chiefly British.
A person who or company which sells shares by using advertisements and other sales techniques rather than trading them on a stock market; (typically) one who fraudulently sells shares of little value in this way.
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1898 Financial Times 27 Apr. 3/3 Hobson was not a ‘share pusher’ but was ‘interested in mining matters’.
1930 Times 27 Mar. 11/3 The Home Office issued directions that he was not to be allowed to enter as he was suspected of being a ‘share-pusher’.
1965 B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irregular i. 34 A look which suggested that I must be a cross between a share-pusher and a black marketeer.
2011 Guardian (Nexis) 25 May (Final ed.) 29 Thousands of people are conned out of about £200m every year by fraudulent ‘boiler-room’ share pushers who use high-pressure sales tactics to foist overpriced and often worthless shares on to naive small investors.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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