open market
noun
: an economic market in which prices are based on competition among private businesses and not controlled by a government : free market
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Trump currently owns about 114.5 million shares, a stake so large that selling it on the open market would almost certainly lead to a fire sale.
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Paolo Confino, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
Beyond streamers, Spanish fiction continues doing business on the open market.
—Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
Others, like Honey’s, were dissected with scalpels and bone saws, to be distributed on the open market.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
The city had to buy water on the open market at exorbitant rates to keep residents’ faucets flowing.
—Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2024
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Paolo Confino, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
Beyond streamers, Spanish fiction continues doing business on the open market.
—Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
Others, like Honey’s, were dissected with scalpels and bone saws, to be distributed on the open market.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
The city had to buy water on the open market at exorbitant rates to keep residents’ faucets flowing.
—Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2024
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“Open market.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open%20market. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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