From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishplay the marketplay the marketBFSRISKto risk money on the stock market as a way of trying to earn more money → play
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play the market• For example: Do Social Security recipients want government playing the market?• The reverse, Adibi said, is true for those whose income is too low to play the market.• And this is why many growers are choosing to let their grain merchants play the markets for them.• The first swap was in December 1983 but the council had not begun to play the market in earnest until late 1987. 