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ˈgive-up U.S.
[f. the vbl. phr. to give up (see give v. 64).]
1. The act of giving up; submission, relinquishment. colloq.
1895Harper's Mag. Nov. 887/1 There was no give-up to those English. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §306/2 Submission; surrender,..give-up.
2. Stock Exchange. (See quots.)
1934Webster, Give-up, a [stock-exchange] transaction in which the broker reveals the name of his principal, who is under obligation to complete the transaction. 1963B. E. Shultz Securities Market (ed. 2) xvi. 302 A ‘floor give-up’ in which specialists and two-dollar brokers give up the names of the firms for which they are acting. 1964Hazard & Christie Investment Business xxiii. 368 There is no reason to countenance give-ups in the over-the-counter market. 1969Times 5 May (Suppl.) p. v/5 Many of them depended for their very existence on commission-splitting, or the ‘give-up’ as it was known informally. |