0 a situation in which people sell shares, etc. after prices have risen, in order to make a profit. This often causes prices to fall:
There is no ban on profit-taking activities.
There is no question that it is simply a system of profit-taking from the unemployed, from the last sixpence they can cut.
Are they coupons on debenture bonds, or are they unearned increment, or are they profit-taking on a bull market?
There is to be no profit-taking by anyone from unemployment.
It seems to me that these provisions will be adequate to stop any improper profit-taking speculating.
I hope that such benefits as come to employers will not be frittered away in excessive profit-taking either.
Therefore, roughly speaking, the amount of income of the profit-taking section of the community has increased at a rate twice as large as any previous decade in the country's history.
He was so satisfied in his belief in private enterprise and the profit-taking system, that the scheme was bound to break down after two or three years.
