bucket shop

1. A fraudulent brokerage operation in which orders to buy and sell are accepted but no executions take place. Instead, the operators expect to profit when customers close out their positions at a loss.

2. A business, such as a travel agency, that buys unsold tickets and resells them at a discount.

[From bucket shop, a saloon selling small amounts of liquor in buckets, from its resemblance to the forerunner of such brokerage operations, which dealt in small units of stocks and commodities.]

bucket shop

1. (Economics, Accounting & Finance / Stock Exchange) an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds

2. (Business / Commerce) Chiefly Brit any small business that cannot be relied upon, esp one selling cheap airline tickets

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Noun	1.	bucket shop - an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm brokerage, brokerage firm, securities firm - a stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller
	2.	bucket shop - (formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket tap house, tavern - a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks

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Claudia Schorrig, a member of the CU, alleged in her complaint that Wellstone Securities, the credit union's former brokerage firm that sold her investments, was "nothing more than a bucket shop rife with fraud.

Lawsuit highlights importance of keeping clear investment boundaries by Morrison, David / Credit Union Times

The last bucket shop disappeared from New York days before the law took effect.

The way it was is the way it is with big bankers by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)

They are painted a sickly shade of green, and front an array of bucket shops selling hastily printed Obama T-shirts, cheap jewellery and imitation perfumes.

Campaign to save Tin Pan Alley by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

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