英语词汇“bucket shop”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

bucket shop

1. A fraudulent brokerage operation in which orders to buy and sell are accepted but no executions take place. Instead, the operators expect to profit when customers close out their positions at a loss.

2. A business, such as a travel agency, that buys unsold tickets and resells them at a discount.

[From bucket shop, a saloon selling small amounts of liquor in buckets, from its resemblance to the forerunner of such brokerage operations, which dealt in small units of stocks and commodities.]

单词	bucket shop
释义	bucket shop n. 1. A fraudulent brokerage operation in which orders to buy and sell are accepted but no executions take place. Instead, the operators expect to profit when customers close out their positions at a loss. 2. A business, such as a travel agency, that buys unsold tickets and resells them at a discount. [From bucket shop, a saloon selling small amounts of liquor in buckets, from its resemblance to the forerunner of such brokerage operations, which dealt in small units of stocks and commodities.]
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