market order WORD ORIGIN noun Stock Exchange. an order to buy or sell a specified amount of a security at the best price available. Liberaldictionary.com
Compare limit order, stop order. Origin of market order First recorded in 1915–20 Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 British Dictionary definitions for market order market order noun an instruction to a broker to sell or buy at the best price currently obtainable on the market Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012