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market order definition - finance
An order to buy or sell a futures contract or a stock at a market price. In the futures market, the order is for a futures contract that must be filled at the best price right away.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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