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• straddle — strad·dle / strad əl/ n: the purchase of an equal number of put options and call options on the same underlying securities with the same price and maturity date Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. straddle …   Law dictionary

• Straddle (disambiguation) — Straddle can mean: * To stand with the feet or wheels on opposite sides of something: see * Straddle position, with legs far apart,also called astride sit. * Straddle, a financial investment strategy * Straddle bets, a type of poker bet …   Wikipedia

• straddle — [strad′ l] vt. straddled, straddling [freq. of STRIDE] 1. to place oneself with a leg on either side of; stand or sit astride of 2. to spread (the legs) wide apart ☆ 3. to take or appear to take both sides of (an issue); avoid committing oneself… …   English World dictionary

• Straddle — Strad dle, v. t. To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Straddle — Strad dle, n. 1. The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart. [1913 Webster] 2. The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle. [1913 Webster] 3. A stock option giving the holder… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• straddle the fence — To straddle the fence is to be indecisive, often to the point where it becomes painful not to make a decision …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• Straddle — Strad dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Straddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Straddling}.] [Freq. from the root of stride.] 1. To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart. [1913 Webster] 2. To stand with the ends staggered; said of the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Straddle milling — Straddle milling. См. Одновременная обработка боковых поверхностей заготовки двумя дисковыми фрезами. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) …   Словарь металлургических терминов

• straddle — (v.) 1560s, probably an alteration of stridlen, frequentative of striden (see STRIDE (Cf. stride)). U.S. colloquial sense of take up an equivocal position, appear to favor both sides is attested from 1838. Related: Straddled; straddling. The noun …   Etymology dictionary

• straddle — (izg. strèdl) m DEFINICIJA sport žarg. tehnika skakanja uvis pri kojoj skakač, okrenut trbuhom letvici, prelazi letvicu prvo glavom (prvi put primijenjena 1957) ETIMOLOGIJA engl …   Hrvatski jezični portal

• straddle — ► VERB 1) sit or stand with one leg on either side of. 2) extend across both sides of. ► NOUN ▪ an act of straddling. ORIGIN from dialect striddling «astride» …   English terms dictionary