wash sale

English

Noun

wash sale (plural wash sales)

  1. (finance) The sale of a security at a loss, and repurchase of the same or substantially identical security shortly before or after; used in tax evasion.
    Synonym: (UK) bed-and-breakfast deal

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Further reading

  • John Smullen, Nicholas Hand, editors (2005), “wash sale”, in A Dictionary of Finance and Banking, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 429
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