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

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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

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

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

"We don't want to just do an M&A trade, or your IPO or your block trade and forget about it till we meet again in a year and a half's time."

From Reuters ● Apr. 19, 2017