money marketn.
/ˈmʌnɪ ˌmɑːkɪt/, U.S. /ˈməni ˌmɑrkət/ 1. The sphere of operation of dealers in loans, stocks and shares, etc.; spec. the market in short-term finance between banks and other financial institutions (sometimes including the foreign exchange and the bullion market). Also more generally: the economic conditions affecting monetary transactions.
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market overt1555
money market1787
pitched1805
farmers' market1847
primary market1859
perfect market1889
energy market1920
1787 J. Bentham Def. Usury xiii. 167 To limit the legal interest to a rate at which the carriers on of the oldest and best-established and least hazardous trades are always glad to borrow, is to give the monopoly of the money-market to those traders.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. vii. 190 In the present state of the money-market.
1861 G. J. Goschen Theory Foreign Exchanges 10 The power which foreign capitalists, holders of bills of exchange upon England, may exert over our money-market.
1883 C. F. Wilder Sister Ridnour's Sacrifice 169 He needed every dollar for his Winter stock of goods, and, besides, the money market was tight.
1904 E. W. A. Pringle Woman Rice Planter 139 The stringency in the money market affects everything.
1964 Financial Times 12 Mar. 10/2 South Africa has developed a money market which, in relation to national income, handles a larger volume of funds than the traditional London discount market.
1988 F. Weldon Leader of Band xii. 67 He had his own money invested in the money market.
2. Originally U.S. A place in which the financial activity of a region is centred; = money centre n. Now rare.
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money market1791
1791 A. Hamilton Establishment of Mint 8 In Holland, the greatest money market of Europe, gold was to silver..as 1 to 14.88.
1883 Cent. Mag. Sept. 691/2 Wall Street..is the money market of the whole country.
1931 Amer. Mercury Feb. 155/2 The country began once more to be the kind of money-market it had become under the control of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Compounds
Finance (chiefly North American).
money market fund n. (a) (in plural) funds used to invest in the money market (rare); (b) a mutual fund which invests in highly liquid short-term securities; more fully money market mutual fund.
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1926 Rev. Econ. Statistics 8 16 Twenty-three of the largest New York City banks, which deal most largely in money market funds.
1975 Business Week (Nexis) 17 Feb. 26 Last year the money market funds were the darlings of the mutual fund industry, with some 25 new funds coming to market.
1989 W. Boroson Keys to Investing in Mutual Funds xxviii. 82 Money-market mutual funds are like checking accounts—but, in most ways, much better.
1994 Onset Oct. 38/2 Money Market Funds invest in Treasury Bills, or T-Bills as they're more commonly known.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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