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Bucket Shop

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Noun

1. bucket shop

an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm

2. bucket shop

(formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bucket Shop

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noun
1. 
an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
2. mainly British
any small business that cannot be relied upon, esp one selling cheap airline tickets

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Bucket Shop

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1. 
a business involved in selling, chiefly by telephone solicitation, that uses high-pressure sales tactics, fraudulent claims, etc.
2.  British
an unlicensed travel agency which sells discounted airline tickets

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Bucket Shop

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n.
1. A fraudulent brokerage operation in which orders to buy and sell are accepted but no executions take place. Instead, the operators expect to profit when customers close out their positions at a loss.
2. A business, such as a travel agency, that buys unsold tickets and resells them at a discount.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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