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bear raid

British  

noun

  1. an attempt to force down the price of a security or commodity by sustained selling

"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

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On Saturday, June 14, 1930 they warned him, said Witness Parish, that if he did not sell out they would start a bear raid on Missouri-Kansas stock the following Monday.

From Time Magazine Archive

When a declining market braced briefly, the investigators believed they had averted a billion-dollar bear raid.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dumping 500,000 shares of Standard Oil on the market last week would have constituted a major bear raid; its private sale disturbed quotations hardly at all.

From Time Magazine Archive

You remember that he has just made two millions in a bear raid.

From Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)

A Burton bear raid was on, and the Street was in panic-making excitement!

From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville

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