English
Noun
en-noun
#US One who scalps tickets to popular entertainment events: buying them in advance and then selling them (perhaps on the day and just outside the venue of the event) at inflated prices
#:We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: �Need any tickets?�
- finance A person on an open outcry exchange trading floor who buys and sells rapidly for his or her own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
Category:Occupations
Synonyms
(one who scalps tickets): ticket tout (UK)
fr:scalper
io:scalper
vi:scalper
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