"profit taking" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "profit taking (countable and uncountable, plural profit takings)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The stock market was down today amid profit taking, the share holders wanted to get some of the increase in stock price as cash while they could."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of extracting profit, as cash or equivalent, from an investment, often by selling part of it."
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      ],
      "tags": [
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  "word": "profit taking"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "profit takings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "profit taking (countable and uncountable, plural profit takings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The stock market was down today amid profit taking, the share holders wanted to get some of the increase in stock price as cash while they could."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of extracting profit, as cash or equivalent, from an investment, often by selling part of it."
      ],
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  "word": "profit taking"
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