- bounce
- A check returned by a bank because it is not payable, usually because of insufficient funds. Also used in the context of securities to refer to the rejection and ensuing reclamation of a security; a stock price's abrupt decline and recovery. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary
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▪ I. bounce bounce 1 [baʊns] verb1. [intransitive, transitive] BANKING if a cheque bounces or a bank bounces it, the bank will not pay any money because there is not enough money in the account of the person who wrote the cheque:• Every time a cheque bounces it costs us £25 in bank charges.
• His bank bounced the cheque and cancelled his overdraft.
2. [intransitive] FINANCE ECONOMICS to quickly increase in price or amount, especially after having fallen:• The airline's shares bounced to 617p before settling back to 604p.
3. [intransitive] FINANCE if a stockmarket bounces, it suddenly becomes very active and share prices rise:• Tokyo's beleaguered stock market bounced dramatically to erase some of its recent losses.
4. [intransitive, transitive] also bounce back COMPUTING if an email that you send bounces or is bounced back, it is returned to you and the other person does not receive it because of a technical problembounce back phrasal verb [intransitive]to quickly increase or become successful again after falling or having problems:• The shares dropped to 430p, before bouncing back to close at 468p.
[m0] ▪ II. bounce bounce 2 noun [countable]a sudden rise in something such as prices, sales, or share prices:• Economists agree that there could be a bounce in prices next year.
ˌdead cat ˈbounceFINANCE an occasion when a share price or stockmarket rises a small amount after a large fall, before falling further:• The market refers to short term recovery in a falling market as a dead cat bounce.
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Ⅰ.bounce UK US /baʊns/ verb [I or T]► BANKING if a cheque bounces, or a bank bounces it, the bank refuses to pay it because there is not enough money in the account: »The bank immediately froze the account and bounced outstanding cheques.
»Payments of $1 million were coming due, but when investors went to cash the checks, they bounced.
► IT, COMMUNICATIONS if an email that you send bounces or is bounced, it is returned to you because the address is wrong or there is a computer problem: »Customers may be annoyed that spam defences bounce their legitimate e-mail.
»The report they'd asked me to send bounced, because the email address was invalid.
► FINANCE, ECONOMICS to suddenly increase, often after falling to its lowest level: »Analysts say that the US economy has bounced.
bounce 10%/10p/10 points »The Group's shares bounced 20% yesterday as it unveiled its half-year results.
Ⅱ.bounce UK US /baʊns/ noun [C, usually singular]► ECONOMICS, FINANCE a sudden increase in value, price, etc.: »Dealers took their cue from a strong bounce on Wall Street to push prices higher.
a bounce in sth »Confidence is growing that we will see a bounce in consumer spending.
»Today's recovery is being led by a bounce in the technology sector.
a bounce back »Despite a bounce back in prices after the sales, the volume of business in stores rose in August.
Financial and business terms. 2012.
