bucket shop in English
noun
1
an unauthorized office for speculating in stocks or currency using the funds of unwitting investors.
The Iowa Electronic Market, which runs a kind of a legal bucket shop in political candidacies, has restructured its presidential futures market.
Use "bucket shop" in a sentence
Below are sample sentences containing the word "bucket shop" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "bucket shop", or refer to the context using the word "bucket shop" in the English Dictionary.
1. 11 After all,[www.Sentencedict.com] Merrill Lynch is not a bucket shop.
2. Bucketer definition is - a broker who conducts a bucket shop : one that buckets orders.
3. 30 At that time, being banned from trading in a bucket-shop was tantamount to the highest degree of flattery for any speculator.