Third Market

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noun

a market established by the London Stock Exchange in 1987 to trade in shares in companies required to provide less detailed information than that required by the main market or the unlisted securities market

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How to use Third Market 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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The third suspect, an 18-year-old named Hamyd Mourad, who turned himself in, is part of the same extended family.
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Paperback publishers distributed their titles in African-American neighborhoods because it expanded their market base.
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Officials have said the war to reclaim upward of a third of Iraq and a quarter of Syria from ISIS could take years.
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Third parties in turn quibbled with his accounts, and he was irritated, but not overly so.
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But the Mexican caballeros had no notion of coming up to the scratch a third time.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
This was somewhat tiresome; and, after a rather feeble attempt at a third laugh, Davy said, "I don't feel like it any more."
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
It occurred to him then, for the first time, that a third resource was open—he might cut the rope, and let the kite go free!
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
When the days were fine, Jean in his basket assisted at the dramatic performance in the market-place.
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On the third day after the declaration of his recall, Ripperda took his official leave, and presented his son in his new office.
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