boiler shop
1boiler shop — noun : a shop for the manufacture or repair of boilers * * * boiler shop, U.S. Slang. a boiler room …
2boiler room — Used to describe place or operation in which unscrupulous salespeople call and try to sell people speculative, even fraudulent securities. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * boiler room ˈboiler room also ˈboiler shop noun [countable] FINANCE an …
3boiler room — an operation for the unscrupulous selling of securities Punning on the intense heat applied. Also as boiler house or shop: ... an ex con called Sidney Coe who had time for a boiler room operation in Kansas City. (Sanders, 1990 Sidney… …
4Boiler room (business) — The term boiler room in business refers to a busy center of activity, often selling questionable goods by telephone. It typically refers to a room where salesmen work, selling stocks, and using unfair, dishonest sales tactics, sometimes selling… …
5Boiler Room (film) — Infobox Film name = Boiler Room imdb id = 0181984 writer = Ben Younger starring = Giovanni Ribisi Vin Diesel Nia Long Nicky Katt Ron Rifkin Ben Affleck Tom Everett Scott Scott Caan director = Ben Younger producer = Jennifer Todd Suzanne Todd… …
6boiler room — Synonyms and related words: Klaxon, boiler factory, brokerage, brokerage house, brokerage office, bucket shop, bull roarer, bunco game, catcall, cherry bomb, clack, clacker, clapper, con game, confidence game, cracker, cricket, firecracker,… …
7boiler room — A colloquial name for a bucket shop that specializes in selling securities over the telephone …
8Bucket shop (stock market) — Bucket shop is a brokerage firm that “books (i.e., takes the opposite side of) retail customer orders without actually having them executed on an exchange. [http://www.cftc.gov/opa/glossary/opaglossary b.htm Glossary, US Commodity Futures Trading …
9bucket shop — An illegal brokerage firm that accepts customer orders but does not attain immediate executions. A bucket shop broker promises the customer a certain price, but waits until a price discrepancy is present and the trade is advantageous to the firm… …
10Bucket Shop — 1. A fraudulent brokerage firm that uses aggressive telephone sales tactics to sell securities that the brokerage owns and wants to get rid of. The securities they sell are typically poor investment opportunities, and almost always penny stocks.… …
