dead-cat bounce

[ ded-kat ]

/ ˈdɛdˌkæt /

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noun

Slang. a temporary recovery in stock prices after a steep decline, often resulting from the purchase of securities that have been sold short.

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Words nearby dead-cat bounce

deadbeat, deadbeat dad, deadbolt, deadboy, dead bury their dead, Let the, dead-cat bounce, dead center, dead centre, dead data, dead drop, dead drunk

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How to use dead-cat bounce in a sentence

The cartoonist, better known as Charb, was shot dead Wednesday.
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A policewoman was shot dead this morning while law enforcement searched for the Charlie Lebdo killers.
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Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.
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The two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is dead.
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A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
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A lateen sail was visible in the direction of Cat Island, and others to the south seemed almost motionless in the far distance.
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When he plays a sonata it is as if the composition rose from the dead and stood transfigured before you.
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To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.
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It is a fearsome thing for a man to be left alone in the dead of night with a young baby.
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British Dictionary definitions for dead-cat bounce

dead-cat bounce

noun

stock exchange informal a temporary recovery in prices following a substantial fall as a result of speculators buying stocks they have already sold rather than as a result of a genuine reversal of the downward trend

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