profit taking
profit taking · profit takings
The act of extracting profit, as cash or equivalent, from an investment, often by…The act of extracting profit, as cash or equivalent, from an investment, often by selling part of it.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)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.
Forms
plural: profit takingsAntonyms
1 antonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable