bucket shop
Example Sentences
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Pressler sat on the board of Sky Capital LLC, a defunct bucket shop run by the fraudster, Ross Mandell.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2014
Critics are calling this the bucket shop act of 2012.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2012
Ryanair, the "no frills" bucket shop airline, has finally confirmed that passengers will now be charged to use the loo.
From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2010
In 1922 he entered partnership with Louis M. Kardos Jr. in a Wall Street brokerage firm which soon failed, was exposed as a "bucket shop."
From Time Magazine Archive
The bucket shop simply gets your money on the supposition that you are more likely to be wrong than to be right.
From Successful Stock Speculation by Butler, John James
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
