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secondary market

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noun

Stock Exchange.
  1. the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.


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This structure also means that Rolex doesn’t have to hold any secondhand inventory on its books, which is a bonus considering values in the secondary market are volatile.

From The Wall Street Journal

Worse, most of these sports have partnered and entangled themselves in the legal “secondary” market, where price gouging is the expected norm.

From The Wall Street Journal

And I haven’t gotten to the secondary market, where sellers are salivating.

From The Wall Street Journal

She doesn’t need to charge all that extra money because she is not going to securitize your mortgage, sell it to the secondary market, and make money off it.

From MarketWatch

Accredited investors who miss out on a private offering can buy private stocks in the secondary market.

From The Wall Street Journal