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best-efforts basis investment & finance definition

  1. An agreement by an investment banker to do its best to oversee but not guarantee the sale of a security issue in the primary market. See also underwriter.
  2. An investor's market order to buy or sell a security in which the brokerage firm agrees to obtain the best possible price.

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