money market

noun

1. the short-term trade in money, as in the sale and purchase of bonds and certificates.

money market

noun

1. finance the financial institutions dealing with short-term loans and capital and with foreign exchange Compare capital market

money market

1. A collective term for the many markets in which funds that are loaned for short periods to businesses or to governments are bought and sold.

Word History and Origins

Origin of money market¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

In both 2011 and 2013, money market mutual funds — one of the biggest buyers of the Treasury securities that have wobbled in recent days — saw significant outflows as investors fled a feared federal default.

From Washington Post

The Ethiopian government’s latest plans to open up its telecommunications sector and enter the mobile money market are sparking concerns over the fairness of its efforts.

From Quartz

I am only moving the amount of money I may need to live for 12 to 18 months into money market funds.

From Washington Post

It also forced banks to consider designing their own Internet money market funds to compete with Yu'E Bao.

From The Daily Beast

And since investors tend to treat money-market funds like cash, it makes sense for funds to maintain maximum flexibility.

From The Daily Beast

The money-market fund industry nearly collapsed, as many money-market funds had Lehman Brothers commercial paper.

From The Daily Beast

For reasons sort of dumb and complicated, my decent-sized Roth IRA is now almost entirely sitting in a money market account.

From The Daily Beast

If it is, as I suspect, in a money market, then you should be able to rransfer it into a stock fund right online.

From The Daily Beast

But such faith and zeal seem strangely out of place in the transactions of the money market.

From Project Gutenberg

Any one who would offer a thousand Bondavara shares in the money-market would be sent to the mad-house.

From Project Gutenberg

Even in the Money Market we must invest before we can realise profits.

From Project Gutenberg

I was told that in the money market in Baghdad a British advance would be heralded by a slump in Turkish exchange.

From Project Gutenberg

The neutral nations of Europe have also sought accommodation in the American money market.

From Project Gutenberg