wash sale

== English == === Noun === wash sale (plural wash sales) (finance) The sale of a security at a loss, and repurchase of the same or substantially identical security shortly before or after; used in tax evasion. Synonym: (UK) bed-and-breakfast deal ==== Related terms ==== wash trade ==== See also ==== matched order === Further reading === John Smullen, Nicholas Hand, editors (2005), “wash sale”, in A Dictionary of Finance and Banking, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 429