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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
Examples of stop order in a Sentence
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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
The stop order by the FAA impacted almost all flights of shippers and passenger airlines.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Jan. 2023
The stop order was lifted just before 9 a.m., but delays and cancellations are expected to snowball.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Jan. 2023
The stop order by the FAA affected almost all flights of shippers and commercial airlines.
—Michelle Chapman, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2023
The stop order on Wednesday morning impacted nearly all commercial and shipping flights.
—Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2023
In a morning of chaos on Wednesday, the Federal Aviation Administration lifted a ground stop order for all flights just before 9 a.m. ET, after fixing a system failure caused by an overnight outage.
—Time, 11 Jan. 2023
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Word History
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 14 Jun. 2024.
Legal Definition
stop order
see order sense 4b
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