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Meaning of bucket shop

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

bucket shop

noun

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. A stockbroking firm which sells stock to clients when it has an undisclosed relationship with that company or its owners.

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

  4. 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.