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Kill

To cancel an order that has not yet been filled. See also: Fill-or-kill, Immediate-or-cancel.

kill

To halt a trade before sending a confirmation of it.

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"But I--but we--but all the Jungle knows that Shere Khan kills Man twice and thrice in a moon."

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He will frighten every head of game within ten miles, and I--I have to kill for two, these days."

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"I shall kill you," repeated the genius, "as you have killed my son."

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"But I do not wish to kill any of them," I replied.

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And when he killed for revenge, or in self-defense, he did that also without hysteria, for it was a very businesslike proceeding which admitted of no levity.

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he died bravely: he killed three of the Zulu devils before he himself was dead.

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The French soldiers went to kill and be killed at the battle of Borodino not because of Napoleon's orders but by their own volition.

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"Idiot!" muttered Danglars; "whether she kill herself or not, what matter, provided Dantes is not captain?"

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Thus they spoke, for they thought that he had killed Antinous by mistake, and did not perceive that death was hanging over the head of every one of them.

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Some thought it would be good to kill the FAMILIES of boys that told the secrets.

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I kindled a fire near a fountain of sweet water, and feasted on the loin of a buck, which a few hours before I had killed. The sullen shades of night soon overspread the whole hemisphere, and the earth seemed to gasp after the hovering moisture.

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Then Idomeneus killed Phaesus, son of Borus the Meonian, who had come from Varne.