stop order

noun

: an order to a broker to buy or sell respectively at the market when the price of a security advances or declines to a designated level

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Shares in United Airlines and American Airlines, both of which issued ground stop orders earlier today, have recovered earlier losses as well. —

Rohan Goswami,ashley Capoot,ruxandra Iordache,jenni Reid,annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 19 July 2024 According to the airline, the ground stop order was issued at approximately 10:30 a.m. —

Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 2024 The various types of limit and stop orders can help automate the process by only triggering an order to sell if a price gets above or below a specific threshold. —

Kristin McKenna, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024 Concord Farms also has run afoul of Planning and Building Department codes, getting a notice of violation and a stop order on new worker housing development on site in 2019, according to records reviewed by The Chronicle. —

Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2023 See all Example Sentences for stop order