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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Other Word Forms

• block trader noun

Example Sentences

When a man can make war or peace, promote or block trade, make you rich or freeze you out, other people do what they can to stay on his good side.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

The block trade will be Blackstone's third stake sale in Embassy, following two such sales in 2020 and 2021, where the private equity group has sold shares worth more than $500 million collectively.

From Reuters • Sep. 23, 2022

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

If the United States insists, for example, on allowing countries to block trade if their deficits get too large, the talks could take an angry turn.

From Economist • Jul. 20, 2017