market maker

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noun

a dealer in securities on the London Stock Exchange who buys and sells as a principal and since 1986 can also deal with the public as a broker

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How to use market maker in a sentence

It may be fun and it may get them paid, until oversaturation ruins our sense for irony and destroys the market for it.
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Paperback publishers distributed their titles in African-American neighborhoods because it expanded their market base.
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Indeed, Lion Air, with 45 percent of the domestic Indonesian airline market, has swallowed the Fernandes formula whole.
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Expensive day care pushes women out of the labor market while men continue to work outside the home.
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Mr. Bachner found it by wandering through the market and identified a craftsmen here who works in a tiny booth.
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When the days were fine, Jean in his basket assisted at the dramatic performance in the market-place.
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The glorious sun was strong in his might, and, like his Maker, warmed the northern world into exuberant life.
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The declaration of war, or cessation thereof, used to be proclaimed in the market by the High Bailiff.
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His partner, Boulton, had a lot ready for the market, and sold 150 by the end of the year.
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It was, moreover, of a very poor colour and certainly not of the kind that would readily find a market.
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