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

Bull markets can run for decades, compounding wealth at strong rates of return, while bear markets—sometimes just as long—deliver flat or negative returns. —Andrew Whalen, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025

The stock market selloff in April marked the end of a bear market, according to Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson, who said a new bull market has started. —Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2025

Those gains helped the S & P 500 recover from near bear market territory to trade back at record levels. —Fred Imbert, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2025

One of the greatest real-life examples of this came on April 7 as news stories swept the country that there would be a 90-day retreat from tariffs after the markets opened entering bear market territory. —Hillary Stalker, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025

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