scalping
scalping Lexical Profile
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• noun
North American The practice of buying popular items, such as event tickets or electronics, in large quantities and reselling them at inflated prices when supply is scarce.
"The concert venue implemented strict digital verification to prevent ticket scalping."
A short-term trading strategy in financial markets in which a trader buys and sells securities or currencies rapidly to capture small price movements.
"Many day traders rely on automated algorithms to execute high-frequency scalping in the foreign exchange market."
The act of cutting or tearing the skin and hair from the top of the human head, historically practiced in warfare to obtain a trophy.
"The historian's lecture examined the colonial bounties that encouraged the practice of scalping during frontier conflicts."