bucket shop

短语

[经] 利用顾客资金买空卖空的投机商号

词形变化

bucket shops 复数 bucket shops

别名

bucketshop

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A stockbroking firm which takes small orders from clients and takes them on its own account rather than actually transmitting them to the market. Prevalent in the US 1870s to 1920s; often set up as shop-fronts in the 1920s.

    贬义 废旧 商务 金融
  2. 2.

    A stockbroking firm which sells stock to clients when it has an undisclosed relationship with that company or its owners.

    贬义 商务 金融
  3. 3.

    A travel agency selling discounted airfares, usually in defiance of existing minimum fare arrangements. Now usually refers to any small cheap agency.

    过时 交通
  4. 4.

    A legal services firm selling heavily discounted legal services and documents made in large volume from boilerplate text and clauses, sometimes as a white labelled loss leader.

    法律
  5. 5.

    A company that sells coats of arms associated with the customer's surname, regardless of whether the customer can claim any relation to the original armiger.

    政治 纹章

词汇关系

词源

bucket + shop

来源:wiktionary