Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

ETF

British  

abbreviation

  1. electronic transfer of funds

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

A popular quality ETF is beating the S&P 500 Momentum Index by 6 percentage points this month.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

What that means to Turnquist is that chip investors can continue to expect a lot of turbulence for the SMH ETF in the short term.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

Some may view the return to more normal movement for the Cboe Semiconductor ETF Volatility Index as a sign that the market has already priced in a lot of fear.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

A single-stock leveraged fund, it added, "fundamentally conflicts with diversification requirements imposed on conventional public funds, making that ETF structure unacceptable".

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

In return, you get shares of the newly minted ETF with the same total value.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training