bear market
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.61 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A stock market where a majority of investors are selling ("bears"), causing overall stock prices to drop. Often operationally defined as a market value drop of 20% or more on some specific stock market index.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, market.
Example Sentences
- "Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return."
- "Now bids are submitted by button companies for the Teddy Bear contract, and Germany plush factories manufacture plush especially for the bear market at Giengen Brenz."
- "It is significant that in the last 5-10 years the preferred method of safely transporting cubs purchased at bear markets and near “Dangs” or forests has been through friendly truck drivers, […]"
- "During the summer of 1906 the bear market surged when toy bears, sold as zoo souvenirs, attracted crowds of little boys and their parents along boardwalks at the seaside resorts of the Jersey Shore."
- "Bear images are now sold to an ever-increasing circle of admirers (as evidenced by Catalina producing videos aimed at the bear market)."