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taker

taker

8 8.3
A trader who accepts existing offers and buys or sells immediately
  • noun
  • /ˈteɪkər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : tomador de liquidez
  • Traders who are takers often react to market prices rather than setting their own.
  • price taker
  • risk taker
  • test taker

Examples

  • During the auction, he was a taker, placing bids on items that matched his budget.

  • And right now you can do an economic dispatch of generation with wind because wind's a price taker at the moment.

  • In other words, they are price takers in determining their likelihood of default.

    Blog text (8)
  • They're price takers on both the output and input markets.

  • Both wind farms and nuclear plants are (to use Jerome Guillet's language) price-takers, not price-makers.

    Blog text (24)
  • Therefore, if some investors overvalue the ERP implementation (driving up prices), profit takers will quickly cause an adjustment in value to reflect an equilibrium price.

    Academic text (2001)
  • In a volatile market, a taker executes trades quickly to minimize potential losses.

Antonyms

282 2.9

A company or person that supplies services such as internet and electricity

Compounds

16 3.2

A person who tries things that could fail or be dangerous, often for excitement

3 1.9

A person who checks and collects tickets at the entrance to an event

3 3.6

A person who visits houses to ask about the people living there

1 3.7

A person who asks people questions to find out what they think

1 4.4

A person who collects money from drivers at a toll booth

profit taker
  • Jargon
1 6.0

A person who sells shares or investments to make money from a price rise

thief-taker
  • Archaic
1 9.9

A person who catches criminals for money before modern police existed

A person who limits other people's freedom, often a ruler or leader

9.8

A person who often uses the drug opium and cannot stop

A person who answers calls and records donations people promise to give during a fundraiser

taker-backer
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who takes help or credit but does not help others

4.8

A person who counts and records goods in a shop or warehouse

Surface Forms

taker singular
takers plural

Morphology

taker = take (transparent) = take + er

The financial sense extends the regular 'one who takes' meaning to market liquidity (one who takes existing orders), so the morphological relation is clear.

Etymology

Taker comes from the verb take, from old Norse taka meaning 'to grasp' or 'to take'. In finance, a taker 'takes' an existing price or order on the market, which removes offers that were waiting to be matched.