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Look

Used for listed equity securities. See: Picture.

Look

1. In equities, the price at which a dealer or broker is willing to buy or sell a security. See also: Bid-ask spread.

2. See: Quote.

look

A price and size quotation for a security. For example, a floor broker may ask for a look at General Motors.

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Lariviere may see ingratitude in those who would look a gift horse in the mouth, but both he and Knight should understand that it's natural for people to want to be sure the UO is really getting a horse and not, say, a pregnant cat.

Knight's shrouded gift

While it might seem foolish to look a gift horse in the mouth, we've had quite enough of this particular gift horse and his profligate party, who in 13 years have failed to seriously lift our employment rate, and now insult us by finding millions of pounds to tell us to be nicer to one another.

Cack-handed approach to community; Letters

This is plainly a cynical piece of electioneering but don't look a gift horse in the mouth, even if it is our money that has paid for the gift.

Parking plan a cynical ploy; Your Shout

THE saying, "To never look a gift horse in the mouth", is not always the soundest advice to follow.

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