profit-taking

/P R AA1 F AH0 T EY0 K IH0 NG/
noun
  1. 1

    The act of extracting profit, as cash or equivalent, from an investment, often by selling part of it.

    โ€œThe stock market was down today amid profit taking, the share holders wanted to get some of the increase in stock price as cash while they could.โ€

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