bear raid
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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When a declining market braced briefly, the investigators believed they had averted a billion-dollar bear raid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dumping 500,000 shares of Standard Oil on the market last week would have constituted a major bear raid; its private sale disturbed quotations hardly at all.
From Time Magazine Archive
On Saturday, June 14, 1930 they warned him, said Witness Parish, that if he did not sell out they would start a bear raid on Missouri-Kansas stock the following Monday.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the greatest "bear" raid in the annals of the Stock Exchange, so graybeards said; and what peculiarly marked it for the admiration of mankind was that it had had the least success.
From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry
The truth is that Miss Allison's fortune was gone—dissipated in an unsuccessful bear raid on the market in which others have shared—and lost.
From The Social Gangster by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
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