Definition of "profit-taking" [profit-taking]

• The sale of stocks after they have increased in value. (noun)

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• "Eventually you will balance your activities between short-term profit-taking and long-term accumulating."
• "Fastmarkets analyst James Moore believed that this was merely be short-term profit-taking."
• "Daewoo Securities was up 0.9% and Samsung Securities was up 1%, while heavyweight technology companies were down on profit-taking after their recent rally, with Samsung Electronics off 2.6%."