bear market

noun

: a market in which securities or commodities are persistently declining in value compare bull market

Examples of bear market in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Strategy briefly departed from that stance earlier this year, however, selling Bitcoin on four separate occasions during a bear market that pushed the cryptocurrency’s price as low as $58,000 in June. — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026

The index has lost almost 40% since its June high and is firmly entrenched in bear market. — Justina Lee,sean Conlon, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026

Growth will almost certainly cool, but earnings rising 12% instead of 30% would hardly make a compelling case for a bear market. — Andrew Graham, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

And there is no doubt that there will be winners and losers this go-round, and probably a stock market correction or bear market along the way, but there is no need to try to guess when that might happen. — Jill Schlesinger, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026

Word History

Etymology

bear entry 1 (one that sells in expectation of a price decline)

First Known Use

1858, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for bear market

• nonmarket
• premarket
• upmarket
• aftermarket
• patriarchate
• supermarket