money market

noun
the short-term trade in money, as in the sale and purchase of bonds and certificates.

Origin:
1925–30

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money market
 
n
finance Compare capital market the financial institutions dealing with short-term loans and capital and with foreign exchange

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money market definition


A collective term for the many markets in which funds that are loaned for short periods to businesses or to governments are bought and sold.

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Example sentences
Regulators and mutual fund executives differ on the stability of money market
  funds since the financial crisis.
Balances can be redeemed in the form of a paper check or swept into a bank
  account or an interest-bearing money market fund.
Money market mutual funds haven't gone away, but they have undergone some
  changes recently, and more may be on the way.
Economists don't seem to bother about the normal saver, currently earning
  peanuts in a money market fund.
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