Alternative Investment Market

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a market on the London Stock Exchange enabling small companies to raise capital and have their shares traded in a market without the expenses of a main-market listingAbbreviation: AIM

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How to use Alternative Investment Market in a sentence

It may be fun and it may get them paid, until oversaturation ruins our sense for irony and destroys the market for it.
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Whatever the FBI says, the truthers will create alternative hypotheses that try to challenge the ‘official story.’
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Paperback publishers distributed their titles in African-American neighborhoods because it expanded their market base.
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It reminded me a bit of an alternative take on The Wolf of Wall Street—through the Toni and Candace lens.
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Indeed, Lion Air, with 45 percent of the domestic Indonesian airline market, has swallowed the Fernandes formula whole.
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When the days were fine, Jean in his basket assisted at the dramatic performance in the market-place.
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"I will," gruffly replied the man, with a look which showed that he was sorry to be forced to choose the second alternative.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
The declaration of war, or cessation thereof, used to be proclaimed in the market by the High Bailiff.
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His partner, Boulton, had a lot ready for the market, and sold 150 by the end of the year.
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It was, moreover, of a very poor colour and certainly not of the kind that would readily find a market.
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