Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bear market
noun
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▪ All together we begin to unload the very cream of our assets, creating a massive bear market.
▪ Fisher also argues that, even if you know for sure that a bear market will occur, selling is dumb.
▪ Have you lived through a bear market?
▪ In both cases, the inevitable bear market has revealed the ugly truth.
▪ Stocks perceived as safest in a bear market were mixed.
▪ The worst bear market lasted from September 1929 through July 1932, when stocks plunged about 90 percent.
▪ They used to believe that investing in big, publicly traded issues would keep their portfolios liquid even in a bear market.
▪ This is a mere stumble compared with the near 50% fall during the mid-1970s bear market.
Wiktionary
bear market
n. (context finance English) A stock market where a majority of investors are selling ("bears"), causing overall stock prices to drop.
WordNet
bear market
n. a market characterized by falling prices for securities
Usage examples of "bear market".
And while Ali ben Ishak may very well have been one of the richest men in the world, rich folk didn't get that way by overtipping, or remembering the cook's birthday, or bidding eighty thousand dollars for a slave in a bear market.
The Old Broad might have been loaded at one time, and she certainly would be again if she sold the land where Papa Lani stood, but Nate didn't think that she had a lot of money to spare after the last bear market.