Stop-loss may refer to:
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Stop-loss insurance Stop-loss insurance is insurance that protects insurers against large claims. Stop-loss policies take effect after a certain threshold has been exceeded in claims.
Overview
Insurance companies themselves, as well as self-insuring employers, purchas ...
, an insurance policy that goes into effect after a set amount is paid in claims
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Stop-loss order
An order is an instruction to buy or sell on a trading venue such as a stock market, bond market, commodity market, financial derivative market or cryptocurrency exchange. These instructions can be simple or complicated, and can be sent to either ...
, stock or commodity market order to close a position if/when losses reach a threshold
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Stop-loss policy In the United States military, stop-loss is the involuntary extension of a service member's active duty service under the enlistment contract in order to retain them beyond their initial end of term of service (ETS) date and up to their contractuall ...
, US military requirement for soldiers to remain in service beyond their normal discharge date
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Stop-loss variant, a genetic variant that causes loss of a stop codon
In media
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''Stop-Loss'' (film), a 2008 film about soldiers subject to the stop-loss policy
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"Stop-Loss" (''Dollhouse''), an episode of the TV series ''Dollhouse''
See also
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Escalation of commitment
Escalation of commitment is a human behavior pattern in which an individual or group facing increasingly negative outcomes from a decision, action, or investment nevertheless continue the behavior instead of altering course. The actor maintains ...
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