stock-index futures

1. 1.

   a futures contract based on a stock index; a bet on the future price of the indexed group of stocks

   Broaderfutures contract

Questions about stock-index futures

What does stock-index futures mean?

stock-index futures means "a futures contract based on a stock index; a bet on the future price of the indexed group of stocks".

Is stock-index futures a common word?

stock-index futures 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.