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Meaning of sell side | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The sector of the finance industry that sells products such as stocks, bonds, and mutual funds to investors.
  2. A model of e-commerce in which the seller hosts an application that enables buyers to purchase their products.

Examples

“The sell side exists only because the buy side trades before we can understand when the sell side is profitable.”
“An endless cycle forms, and it's a cycle that I can't imagine the sell side is happy about. Like their buy-side counterparts, the sell side will welcome entrepreneurs with open arms for no other reason than to regain the home court advantage: to reconnect to the buy side.”
“So when my 69,000 shares are printed in the BBH market, it not only draws attention, but makes the sell side begin to wonder if Argus knows something. And the last thing anybody on the sell side wants is to be in the dark. My phone starts ringing with sell siders telling me they could have done better on my last pring, saying they can be more competitive.”
“It provides a discussion of various e-commerce business models from differing persepectives and presents a taxonomy based on criteria such as sell side versus buy side, system orientation, penetration level, and organizational structure.”
“Shopping on the Internet at Web sites such as amazon. com and toysrus.com are examples of the sell side model.”
“There are platforms controlled by the provider (sell side) or by the consumer (buy side), as well as those controlled by market organizations which in turn are provided and controlled by a neutral third-party authority.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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