panic selling
English
Noun
panic selling (countable and uncountable, plural panic sellings)
- (finance) Wide-scale selling of an investment (such as a company's stock) out of emotion and fear, rather than evaluating the fundamentals, which causes a sharp decline in prices.
Related terms
Verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of panic sell
See also
- buy the dip
- panic-buy (verb)
- panic buying (noun)
- sell-off (noun)