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open market noun

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Definition

a situation in which companies can trade freely without limits, and prices are changed by the number of goods and how many people are buying them
In the meantime, the shares will continue to trade on the open market.

(Definition of open market noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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