| 单词 | to rig the market |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto rig the (stock) market b. transitive. Stock Market. To manipulate (the stock market), causing prices to rise or fall through illegal, improper, or contrived methods. Frequently in to rig the (stock) market. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (intransitive)] > specific operations soften1565 to get out1728 bear1837 to rig the (stock) market1841 stag1845 cornera1860 to straddle the market1870 raid1889 to make a market1899 to job backwards1907 to mark to (the) market1925 short1959 daisy-chain1979 to pitch for ——1983 1841 Age 9 May 151/1 The Tea men..have been merrily rigging the market, so much that the prices have gone up about 4d. per lb. 1855 T. Taylor Still Waters 13 We must rig the market. Go in and buy up every share that's offered. 1860 Bentley's Q. Rev. Jan. 578 Quite capable..of conspiring to rig the stock-market, or of perpetrating any other sort of villainy. 1875 W. S. Jevons Money xvii. 210 About ten years ago it became the practice to rig the market as regards the shares of particular joint-stock banking companies. 1933 E. Pound ABC of Econ. v. i. 108 No one ever yet claimed to have sold short, or rigged the stock market, save in the hope of picking other men's pockets. 1978 A. Ryan in C. Hookway & P. Pettit Action & Interpretation 76 The only question at issue here is whether we should treat his account of social interaction as a story about how we rig the market, or as a story about how we engage in putting on a good show. 2001 H. Hodgkinson M. E. Durham Introd. p. vi He is notoriously greedy, rigging the Viennese bourse with calculated rumours and taking subventions from all and sundry. 2008 National Rev. (Nexis) 9 Sept. The feds have no business rigging the market to make investments in manufacturing more attractive than investments in something else. < as lemmas |
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