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matched, ppl. a.|mætʃt|
[f. match v.1 + -ed.]
1. Having a match or equal. Chiefly in ill-, well-matched, q.v.
2. Of boards: Furnished with a tongue on one edge and a groove on the other. † matched joint = ‘match-joint’ (match a. 1). Also Comb., matched-boarding, -lined a. = match-boarding, -lined.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 114/1 The several Parts of a [Printing] Press. The Matcht Joynt, is the Joynt or Hing fastned to the Timpan and hinder Raile of the Coffin. 1833Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §297 Five-eighth-inch deal matched (the edge of one board grooved, and the adjoining board tongued..) and beaded boarding. 1857–9Tarbuck Encycl. Carpentry & Joinery 208 In Fig. 10 the edges are shot;..in Fig. 12 matched. 1865Price List of Joinery 33, 6.63/4 Matched-lined enclosure to stairs. 1873Tarn Tredgold's Carpentry 242 Matched-boarding.
3. matched orders: the name given to systems of manipulation on the Stock Exchange, which involve artificial treatment of orders to buy and sell. Also occas. sing. Also called matching orders. orig. U.S.
1903S. S. Pratt Work of Wall St. 146 The Syndicate may be washing sales by matched orders through curb brokers in order to market watered stock. 1908Westm. Gaz. 26 Aug. 2/2 An order to buy is given to one broker and an order to sell to another, and an arrangement is made that the two brokers shall only deal with one another... The opportunity for market manipulation is obvious, and ‘matched orders’ have led to grave scandals. 1920A. C. Pigou Econ. of Welfare II. vi. 178 It should be observed that the device of ‘matched orders’ may be made difficult by a rule forbidding offers and bids for large amounts of stock on the terms ‘all or none’. 1930J. E. Meeker Work of Stock Exchange (rev. ed.) xvi. 455 A..subtler evil consists of ‘matching orders’... Instances where there is danger of matched orders..deserve brief explanation. 1941Dice & Eiteman Stock Market (ed. 2) 467 When a trader gives one broker orders to buy a given stock and another orders to sell a like amount of stock in a manner to either advance or depress the price artificially, such a trader is said to be giving matched orders. 1951G. L. Leffler Stock Market xx. 327 Artificial market activity was accomplished..through matched orders and..without matched orders... Matched orders were in violation of state law and the rules of the New York Stock Exchange... The same effect as the matched order could be obtained without its actual use. 1964P. Wyckoff Dict. Stock Market Terms 163 Matched orders. 1. Orders to buy or sell a particular stock which are placed simultaneously with different brokers by the same person... 2. Buy and sell orders matched legitimately by the specialist in a stock in order to arrange an opening price as closely as possible to the previous close.
4. Designed to match in colour, style, etc.; matching.
1972A. Roudybush Sybaritic Death (1974) vii. 70 Clare's status-conscious matched luggage. 1974P. de Vries Glory of Hummingbird iii. 49 A matched set of luggage. 1975P. G. Winslow Death of Angel vi. 142 He presented her with a set of matched luggage..for the weekends.
Add:5. matched guise adj. phr. Sociolinguistics, designating a method of comparing people's reactions to the same passage spoken in different language varieties.
1971New Society 14 Oct. 714/2 In order to find out whether rp really did have more prestige than regional varieties, I used the ‘matched-guise’ technique. This consisted of playing tape recordings of speakers with different accents..to listeners who we asked to rate these voices on certain dimensions, including status. 1991Eng. World-Wide XII. 288 This work..included an exploratory matched-guise test to investigate the children's attitude to standard language and dialect. |