单词 | share pushing |
释义 | share pushingn. Chiefly British. The action or practice of selling shares by using advertisements and other sales techniques rather than trading them on a stock market, esp. of fraudulently selling shares of little value in this way.Recorded earliest as a modifier. ΚΠ 1896 Financial Times 12 Feb. 4/6 At all events, if the business be of the promising character Mr. Andain suggests, let him confine his share-pushing operations to Newport. 1897 Coolgardie (W. Austral.) Miner 1 Mar. 3/2 (heading) Cripple Creek share-pushing. 1928 Daily Mail 3 Aug. 19/3 The day on which the sections penalising share-pushing shall come into force. 2012 Money Managem. (Nexis) 23 Mar. It was the problem of share pushing and hawking that led to the first piece of investment business regulation, the Prevention of Fraud (Investments) Act 1939. Compounds As a modifier, as in share-pushing fraud, share-pushing operation. ΚΠ 1896 Financial Times 12 Feb. 4/6 At all events, if the business be of the promising character Mr. Andain suggests, let him confine his share-pushing operations to Newport. 1948 Daily Tel. 3 Sept. 1/3 An alleged international share-pushing fraud is being investigated by Scotland Yard. 1977 N. Faulks No Mitigating Circumstances xi. 152 A number of other persons were charged with having taken part in share-pushing transactions. 2010 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 26 July 17 The court heard how serious fraud investigators became aware of the high pressure, share-pushing operation in 2005. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1896 |
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