scalper (30 synonym found)

Scalper has 30 synonyms. The top synonyms for scalper are margin purchaser, sales personnel, ticket scalper, smart operator, shop assistant, sales engineer, selling agent, sales manager and 22 more. Browse the full list below.

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Definition of scalper:

(n) : one who scalps tickets to popular entertainment events: buying them in advance and then selling them (perhaps on the day and just outside the venue of the event) at inflated prices; a person on an open outcry exchange trading floor who buys and sells rapidly for his or her own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less)
"we could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: "Need any tickets?""
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Definition of scalper:

(n) : one who scalps tickets to popular entertainment events: buying them in advance and then selling them (perhaps on the day and just outside the venue of the event) at inflated prices; a person on an open outcry exchange trading floor who buys and sells rapidly for his or her own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less)
"we could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: "Need any tickets?""
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