stop-loss order

1. 1.

   an order to a broker to sell (buy) when the price of a security falls (rises) to a designated level

   Synonymsstop order

   Broaderorder

Questions about stop-loss order

What does stop-loss order mean?

stop-loss order means "an order to a broker to sell (buy) when the price of a security falls (rises) to a designated level".

What is another word for stop-loss order?

Close synonyms include stop order. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stop-loss order a common word?

stop-loss 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.