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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, obsolete
Topics: business, finance
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noun
A stockbroking firm which sells stock to clients when it has an undisclosed relationship with that company or its owners.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory
Topics: business, finance
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noun
A travel agency selling discounted airfares, usually in defiance of existing minimum fare arrangements. Now usually refers to any small cheap agency.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Topics: lifestyle, tourism, transport, travel
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
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noun
(formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: tavern, tap house
noun
an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: brokerage, brokerage firm, securities firm
History
bucket + shop
