market maker

基本解释

The Department of Defense becomes a market maker.
美国国防部为市场推波助澜。
In the 1990s, the world mocked Microsoft when this mass market maker of relatively cheap software announced it was getting into the more sophisticated world of business applications.
20世纪90年代，当微软身为面向大众市场的廉价软件厂商，宣布它开始进军先进的商业应用领域时，全世界都对之嗤之以鼻。
The role of the Market Maker on Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) is to augment liquidity, while maintaining the primacy of an order-driven continuous auction market based on price-time priority.
做市商在多伦多证券交易所（TSX）的作用是增加流动性，同时在价格优先，时间优先的基础上保持订单驱动的连续拍卖市场。
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In addition to being the world's largest exporter, China is already the biggest auto market and steel maker.

The New York-based market maker also made a bid today to buy Knight Capital.
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Once a price is set, the market maker oversees the transaction between a buyer and seller.
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However, the market maker at the same time is profiting from his short futures position, Sebastian explained.
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a dealer in securities on the London Stock Exchange who buys and sells as a principal and since 1986 can also deal with the public as a broker