clean

In the context of general equities, block trade that matches buy or sell orders/interests, sparing the block trader any inventory risk (no net position and hence none available for additional customers). natural. Antithesis of open. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary

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▪ I. clean clean ¹ [kliːn] adjective

1. done in a fair or legal way, or showing that you have followed the rules or the law:

• In ethical investment, investors try to buy shares in companies with a clean record.

• His clean credit history will give him access to bank financing.

2. clean products or industrial methods do not damage the environment; = GREEN:

• clean vehicles such as electric cars and natural-gas buses

• clean coal technology

  [m0] ▪ II. clean clean ² verb

clean out phrasal verb [transitive]

1. clean somebody/​something out informal to take all the money of a person or organization:

• The 16 bankrupt financial institutions threatened to clean out the central bank's reserves.

2. clean something → out to improve an organization by removing parts or people that are not making money or are not effective or honest:

• The banks must restructure to cut costs and clean out portfolios that are full of bad loans.

— see also clean-out

clean up phrasal verb

1. [transitive] clean something → up to improve an organization by removing parts or people that are not making money or are not effective or honest:

• The company is cleaning up its income statement and developing a more profitable business.

— see also clean-up

2. [intransitive] to make a lot of money in a deal:

• The traders buying the bonds cleaned up, because they carried high fixed interest rates when inflation was falling quickly.

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clean UK US /kliːn/ adjective

► honest and fair, or showing that you have done nothing illegal or morally wrong: a clean record/report/license »

Job applicants must have a clean commercial driver's license.

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He said the campaign's priorities will be ""education and clean government.""

► ENVIRONMENT free of, or producing no harmful chemicals or substances: clean energy/fuel/technology »

clean energy from renewable sources such as solar and wind power

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clean air/water/soil

● have clean hands — Cf. have clean hands

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clean UK US /kliːn/ verb

● clean house — Cf. clean house

● clean out your desk/office/locker — Cf. clean out your office/locker

● clean up its/your act — Cf. clean up your act

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clean UK US /kliːn/ adverb

● come clean — Cf. come clean