- fill
- The price at which an order is executed. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary————The execution of an order on the derivatives market. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein financial glossary
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fill fill [fɪl] verb1. fill a job/post/vacancy etc HUMAN RESOURCES to find and employ a suitable person to do a job that has been advertised:• Headhunters are charging up to 60% of annual salary to fill a top job.
• The post cannot be filled by a British executive because it requires a more south-east Asian background.
2. fill a gap/hole/niche MARKETING to provide a product or service that is needed but is not available or has not been provided before:• The product has been researched and developed to fill a gap in the market place.
• IBM introduced a mainframe that fills a hole in its product line.
3. fill a need/demand MARKETING to provide a service that will deal with a problem:• The futures and options business has filled a need for managing the fluctuating exchange rates.
4. fill an order MANUFACTURING to supply the goods a customer has ordered:• After filling an order for the car from other Eastern European countries, the plant will be shut down.
fill something → in phrasal verb [transitive]to write all the information that is requested on an official form; =FILL OUT:• He filled in the usual trader's form offering to sell the car to the finance company.
• The time sheet is filled in by your supervisor.
fill in for somebody phrasal verb [intransitive]to do another person's job for a short period of time because they are not there or are unable to do it:fill in for somebody for• The supervisor is forbidden by the union contract to fill in for an employee who is on a break.
— see also fill-infill something → out phrasal verb [transitive]another name for fillfill up phrasal verb [intransitive]to gradually become full of people, things, or a substance:• Shares on the Stock Market began to rise, and industry reported order books filling up.
fill up with• The Antrim Technology Park is filling up with high technology software companies.
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fill UK US /fɪl/ verb [T]► to employ someone to do a job: fill a vacancy/post/position »It took us over a year to fill that vacancy.
► to do a job: fill a vacancy/post/position »A former state district judge will fill the vacancy created following the CEO's resignation.
»He was political editor of the Sunday Mirror, then filled the same role at Today newspaper.
► to provide something such as a product or service that someone wants or needs: fill a gap/niche »The theory is that the government's venture-capital funds can fill a gap in the market for start-ups.
fill a demand/need »A new business must fill both a need and a demand. Selling something people need but don't want is noble but not profitable.
► to supply a customer with the product or service they have requested: »The defence ministry called for bids to fill an order for 126 fighter jets.
Financial and business terms. 2012.
