English Dictionary

bucket shop

名詞

軽蔑的 廃用 古風

(finance, derogatory, obsolete) A stockbroking firm which takes small orders from clients and takes them on its own account rather than actually transmitting them to the market. Prevalent in the US 1870s to 1920s; often set up as shop-fronts in the 1920s.

日本語の意味

（金融用語）顧客からの小口注文を市場に伝えず、自社の口座で処理する株式仲介業者。歴史的には1870年代から1920年代の米国で存在し、軽蔑的な意味合いを持つ業者を指す。

In the late 19th century, a bucket shop frequently accepted small client orders and dealt them on its own account instead of sending them to the market.

19世紀末、詐欺的な証券業者はしばしば顧客の小口注文を受け取り、それらを市場に出さず自己勘定で処理していた。

意味（1）

(finance, derogatory, obsolete) A stockbroking firm which takes small orders from clients and takes them on its own account rather than actually transmitting them to the market. Prevalent in the US 1870s to 1920s; often set up as shop-fronts in the 1920s.

意味（2）

(derogatory, finance) A stockbroking firm which sells stock to clients when it has an undisclosed relationship with that company or its owners.

意味（3）

(travel, dated) A travel agency selling discounted airfares, usually in defiance of existing minimum fare arrangements. Now usually refers to any small cheap agency.

意味（4）

(law) A legal services firm selling heavily discounted legal services and documents made in large volume from boilerplate text and clauses, sometimes as a white labelled loss leader.

意味（5）

(heraldry) A company that sells coats of arms associated with the customer's surname, regardless of whether the customer can claim any relation to the original armiger.

bucket shops （ plural ）