limit order

American  

noun

Stock Exchange.

1. an order to buy or sell a specified amount of a security at a specific price.

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Etymology

Origin of limit order

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

A key point about placing a limit order is that if the stock does not get sold off cheaply, you are no worse or better off than you are now because nothing happens.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 12, 2026

Whether there are parameters there, limit order versus market, a whole bunch of things.

From The Verge • Mar. 22, 2022

It has also led to a proliferation of different types of orders that go far beyond the basics of a market or limit order to attract firms to trade there.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2015

The problem of course is that you will have to put in a limit order that may or may not get hit.

From Forbes • Oct. 18, 2012

Their hot zeal, only equalled by that of their revelries over the memory of Burns, was unrestrained by limit, order, or degree.

From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John