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Bloodletting An intense bear market. Bloodletting occurs when a security or market declines significantly in price very quickly. See also: Panic sell. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| For the most part, he's been, by dictator standards, a moderate bloodletter. Thus begins Siegfried Sassoon's seething 1917 poem "The General," on the bungling bloodletters commanding the British army during World War I. Borg also quotes a passage citing members of trades suspected of immorality: workers in the transport trades, herdsmen, shopkeepers, physicians, butchers, goldsmiths, fiaxcombers, handmill cleaners, peddlers, weavers, barbers, launderers, bloodletters, bath attendants, and tanners. |
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