A market, especially a stock market, characterized by falling prices; the opposite of a bull market.
| bear market | |
noun | |
| a market characterized by falling prices for securities |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |