market order
/ˈmɑːrkɪt ˈɔːrdər/
an instruction to buy or sell a security immediately at the best available current price
market order in a sentence
“She placed a market order to sell all her shares when the bad news broke.”
Origin of market order
Latin mercatus trade + ordo arrangement
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stop-loss order
an order to sell a security automatically when it reaches a specified price, limiting downside loss
limit order
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