block trade

American  

noun

1. the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.

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• block trader
  noun

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block trade

Groupe Bruxelles Lambert did so through the sale of six million Concentrix shares on April 29 in a block trade pursuant to Rule 144 at a price of $22.25 per share.

From Barron's ● May 8, 2026

Bank of America initially told the regulator that its processes related to the block trade were business-as-usual and above-board, the people familiar with the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

Gennadiy Goldberg, a rates strategist at TD Securities, said that on Thursday a large block trade — a big transaction, typically made by an institutional investor — helped to start the move in U.S.

From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2022

Algeria continues to block trade, however, and the Algerian Foreign Ministry on Saturday called the European response “hasty and unfounded.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2022

The sale took place through a block trade that put shares in JBS on auction during early trading in the Sao Paulo stock exchange.

From Reuters ● Feb. 16, 2022