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stop order
noun
: an order to a broker to buy or sell respectively at the market when the price of a security advances or declines to a designated level
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Shares in United Airlines and American Airlines, both of which issued ground stop orders earlier today, have recovered earlier losses as well.
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Rohan Goswami,ashley Capoot,ruxandra Iordache,jenni Reid,annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 19 July 2024
According to the airline, the ground stop order was issued at approximately 10:30 a.m.
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Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 2024
The various types of limit and stop orders can help automate the process by only triggering an order to sell if a price gets above or below a specific threshold.
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Kristin McKenna, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
Concord Farms also has run afoul of Planning and Building Department codes, getting a notice of violation and a stop order on new worker housing development on site in 2019, according to records reviewed by The Chronicle.
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Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2023
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First Known Use
1882, in the meaning defined above
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“Stop order.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stop%20order. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
Legal Definition
stop order
see order sense 4b
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