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Realize

To close a position such that one finally sees the profit or loss from an investment. For example, if an investor buys a stock at $5 per share and the price goes to $10, the investor has a paper profit of $5 per share. However, if the investor waits to sell the stock until the price drops to $8, he/she only realizes $3 per share in profit. Investors often wait before realizing substantial profits or losses, as locking in a profit may result in higher taxation, while realizing a loss removes the possibility that the investment can be recovered. See also: Cut losses.

References in classic literature ?

When man has realised Individualism, he will also realise sympathy and exercise it freely and spontaneously.

Christ made no attempt to reconstruct society, and consequently the Individualism that he preached to man could be realised only through pain or in solitude.

A few Russian artists have realised themselves in Art; in a fiction that is mediaeval in character, because its dominant note is the realisation of men through suffering.

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The 365kg Lim heifer was chosen by the Judge Mr Andrew Powell of Grove Farm ahead of E H Pennie's first prize bullock which weighed 405kg and realised pounds 1250.