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stop order
noun
: an order to a broker to buy or sell respectively at the market when the price of a security advances or declines to a designated level
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Shares in United Airlines and American Airlines, both of which issued ground stop orders earlier today, have recovered earlier losses as well.
—Rohan Goswami,ashley Capoot,ruxandra Iordache,jenni Reid,annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 19 July 2024
According to the airline, the ground stop order was issued at approximately 10:30 a.m.
—Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 2024
The various types of limit and stop orders can help automate the process by only triggering an order to sell if a price gets above or below a specific threshold.
—Kristin McKenna, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
Concord Farms also has run afoul of Planning and Building Department codes, getting a notice of violation and a stop order on new worker housing development on site in 2019, according to records reviewed by The Chronicle.
—Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2023
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First Known Use
1882, in the meaning defined above
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“Stop order.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stop%20order. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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stop order
see order sense 4b
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