Bible Dictionaries
Stop Order

Webster's Dictionary

An order that aims to limit losses by fixing a figure at which purchases shall be sold or sales bought in, as where stock is bought at 100 and the broker is directed to sell if the market price drops to 98.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Stop Order'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/stop-order.html. 1828.