- dumping
- Used in the context of general equities. offering large amounts of stock with little or no concern for price or market effect. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary
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1. to put waste in a particular place, especially illegally LAW :• 11 million gallons of crude oil were illegally dumped into Prince William Sound.
2. to sell something that you do not want:• But before you call your broker and dump all your stockholdings, consider some other data.
3. COMMERCE ECONOMICS to sell products cheaply in an export market, perhaps in order to increase your share of the market there:• Japanese-made display screens are being dumped in the US at below-market prices.
— dumping noun [uncountable] :• Anti-dumping duties are intended to eliminate the difference between an allegedly unfair import price and a higher home-market price.
• Orders placed by credit card are automatically dumped into the computer system.
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dumping UK US /ˈdʌmpɪŋ/ noun [U]► ECONOMICS the practice of selling goods in another country so cheaply that companies in that country cannot compete fairly: »They were charged with selling lumber on the U.S. market below the cost of production, a practice known as dumping.
► FINANCE the act of selling large amounts of something that you do not want to keep: »If someone were to initiate the large-scale dumping of dollars, an avalanche-style collapse could begin.
► ENVIRONMENT the act of throwing something away in a place that is not suitable or allowed by law: »waste/radioactive/chemical dumping
Financial and business terms. 2012.