strangle

IPA: strˈæŋgʌɫ

noun

  • (finance) A trading strategy using options, constructed through taking equal positions in a put and a call with different strike prices, such that there is a payoff if the underlying asset's value moves beyond the range of the two strike prices.

verb

  • (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
  • (transitive) To stifle or suppress.
  • (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
  • (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
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Examples of "strangle" in Sentences

  • Strangle the fool that dares to scoff
  • He was strangled to death with a bowstring.
  • Reilly strangled the foreman and completed the theft.
  • Death of the phloem essentially strangles the tree to death.
  • He would then strangle them and dump the bodies in the desert.
  • The new policy was designed to more greatly strangle the Church.
  • He then uses the antenna of the car to strangle Jennifer to death.
  • The red cloaked figure reappeared and attempted to strangle the two.
  • A large position known as a "strangle" in AMR 's options also traded.
  • Sometimes it's called strangle weed because it kills the plant it grows on.
  • Enraged, the mind of Clerval surfaces, and the Creature strangles her to death.
  • Employing a strategy known as a "strangle," traders bought both calls and puts expiring in August.
  • Midway through the session, one large trader pursued a "strangle" -- buying November $105 calls and November $60 puts.
  • In March contracts, traders were taking a so-called strangle trade, a combination of call and put options at different strike prices.
  • Midway through the session, a large trader appeared to have sold a "strangle" -- selling an equal number of November $27 calls and November $24 puts -- and simultaneously bought January $25 puts.
  • Setting up a trade known as a "strangle," an investor purchased 2,500 puts that grant the right to sell shares for $49 by next month, as well as calls that grant the right to buy shares for $50 by the same expiry.

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