3syllables
profit-taking
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Definitions ofprofit-taking
1noun
- The act of extracting profit, as cash or equivalent, from an investment, often by selling part of it.
Example: "The stock market was down today amid profit taking, the share holders wanted to get some of the increase in stock price as cash while they could."
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