market order

noun Stock Exchange.

an order to buy or sell a specified amount of a security at the best price available.

Compare limit order, stop order.

Origin of market order

First recorded in 1915–20

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British Dictionary definitions for market order

market order

noun

an instruction to a broker to sell or buy at the best price currently obtainable on the market

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