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☆ wash sale

the pretended trading of stock, accomplished by buying shares at one broker and simultaneously selling an equal number of shares at another broker, in order to make trade in that stock appear active: an illegal practice

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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