profit taking
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See also: profit-taking
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Noun[edit]
profit taking (countable and uncountable, plural profit takings)
- The act of extracting profit, as cash or equivalent, from an investment, often by selling part of it.
- The stock market was down today amid profit taking, the share holders wanted to get some of the increase in stock price as cash while they could.