taker
- noun
- /ˈteɪkər/
- Specialized
- Traders who are takers often react to market prices rather than setting their own.
- price taker
- risk taker
- test taker
Examples
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During the auction, he was a taker, placing bids on items that matched his budget.
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And right now you can do an economic dispatch of generation with wind because wind's a price taker at the moment.
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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.
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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
Compounds
A person who answers calls and records donations people promise to give during a fundraiser
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.