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bucket shop

NOUN
dishonest brokerage
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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

In reality, you run what is nothing better than an exceedingly profitable bucket shop.

From The Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)



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