Business buzzwords
Q1
Buying and selling stock rather than looking for dividend income was seen as a new form of entertainment for women in 1720: "Stock-..... is now become so laudable, that many great ladies forsake their tea to go to Change Alley", reported one paper, while another announced that "several great ladies repair into the city, and pawn their jewels to buy South Sea".
(*) floating
(*) jobbing
(*) passing
(*) trebling
