whale
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8.2
- noun
- /weɪl/
- Jargon
:
ballena
- Many cryptocurrency investors are concerned about the actions of a single whale that can sway the market with large trades.
- a whale trader
Now they are privately going to larger whales like SpaceX and Tesla investors.
- Now they are privately going to larger whales like SpaceX and Tesla investors.
- You see the biggest whales, the biggest wallets accumulating.
Examples
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The big user or whale had borrowed a huge amount of stable coins from Salend to fund a position in Solana's native sole token.
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The developers rely on players called whales—individuals willing to invest significant amounts of cash into the game.
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Now, how do you get in touch with a whale?
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Each game generally has only a few whales that drive the revenues for the game.
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In their forecasts, they had an average spend of $16 for the whales.
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The whale sold millions of dollars in Bitcoin, causing the price to drop significantly.
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To understand market dynamics, it's important to identify the major whales involved in cryptocurrency trading.
Idioms
- Informal
To try to reach a very difficult or impossible goal for a long time
Compounds
6
3.5
A very large fish with white spots that moves slowly and eats tiny sea animals and plants
4
7.9
A very large whale with baleen that lives in cold coastal waters and is endangered
3
4.0
A large whale with a flat head, long body and small back fin found in the Atlantic and Pacific
- Specialized
1
7.4
A medium-sized whale with a long narrow snout that dives deep in oceans
- Offensive
1
8.1
A dangerous online challenge that encouraged people to do harmful tasks, sometimes leading to self-harm
- Specialized
1
6.7
A very large whale that lives in Arctic waters with a curved mouth and big body
- US
1
6.5
A small whale like the beluga that is white as an adult and lives in very cold northern waters
- Specialized
A very small sperm whale that lives in warm and cool seas and grows to about 8 feet long
A large whale with baleen plates, a flat head, and throat ridges that lives in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
- Archaic
A large whale that uses thin, brush-like plates in its mouth to filter tiny sea animals from water
How Much
- Jargon
22
8.2
- Specialized
6
3.4
279
2.1
- UK
1
5.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word whale is used in finance as a metaphor from the big sea animal whale, so a market whale is someone who owns a 'huge' amount and can move prices, like a whale making big waves in the sea.