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runner definition - finance
A person employed by a futures trading company who delivers price orders to the floor broker in the pit and then returns the completed order to the desk where the order completion is verbally confirmed and entered into the computer system.

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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