bucket shop
Example Sentences
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From the outside, a bucket shop resembled a legitimate brokerage.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
“They had a fine office and the largest and completest quotation board I have ever seen anywhere,” Edwin Lefèvre writes of one bucket shop in his 1923 classic, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator External link.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
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
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
The man who runs a bucket shop usually has no conscience, and it certainly is an unfortunate thing for anyone to get mixed up with such a man.
From Successful Stock Speculation by Butler, John James
