market order

1. 1.

   an order to a broker to sell or buy stocks or commodities at the prevailing market price

   Broaderorder

Questions about market order

What does market order mean?

market order means "an order to a broker to sell or buy stocks or commodities at the prevailing market price".

Is market order a common word?

market order is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.